1. noun /ræt/
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.
2. verb /ræt/
He ratted on his coworker.
b) To kill rats.
He is going to rat us out!
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