Rat
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- Any of about 56 different species of small, omnivorous rodents belonging to the genus Rattus.
- A term indiscriminately applied to numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles and mice) having bodies longer than about 12 cm, or 5 inches.
- A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel.
- What a rat, leaving us stranded here!
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- He’s more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house.
- An informant or snitch
- Template:Slang A person who routinely spends time at a particular location.
- Our teenager has become a mall rat.
- He loved hockey and was a devoted rink rat.
- A promiscuous person - often a young female - who attends sporting and other entertainment events, primarily to seek sexual liaisons with athletes, entertainers and/or others traveling with them; a groupie.
- Informer.
- Scab
- North West London slang term for Vagina, as in get your rat out.
- A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.
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