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rat
1. noun /ræt/
a) Any of about 56 different species of small, omnivorous rodents belonging to the genus Rattus.

What a rat, leaving us stranded here!

b) 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.

He’s more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house.

Syn: traitor, stool pigeon
2. verb /ræt/
a) to betray someone and tell their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn someone in, bewray.

He ratted on his coworker.

b) To kill rats.

He is going to rat us out!

Syn: tell, finger, bewray

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