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Exclamation
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rats, plural;
  1. Used to express mild annoyance or irritation

Verb
  1. (of a person, dog, or cat) Hunt or kill rats

  2. Desert one's party, side, or cause

  3. Give (hair) shape or fullness with a rat

Noun
  1. A rodent that resembles a large mouse, typically having a pointed snout and a long, sparsely haired tail. Some kinds have become cosmopolitan and are sometimes responsible for transmitting diseases

  2. A person regarded as despicable, esp. a man who has been deceitful or disloyal

  3. An informer

  4. A person who is associated with or frequents a specified place
    • - you and the rest of the tavern rats will have to find a new hangout
    • - LA mall rats
  5. A pad used to give shape or fullness to a woman's hair


  1. any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
  2. desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage
  3. employ scabs or strike breakers in
  4. scab: someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
  5. fink: take the place of work of someone on strike
  6. rotter: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'"
  7. Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents of the superfamily Muroidea. "True rats" are members of the genus Rattus, the most important of which to humans are the black rat, Rattus rattus, and the brown rat, Rattus norvegicus. ...
  8. Atomic War Bride (Rat, literally War), is a 1960 Yugoslav science fiction drama film directed by Veljko Bulajić.
  9. Rat is a 2000 Irish/British/American comedy film directed by Steve Barron. The film focuses on the transformation of a working-class man into a rat and how his family copes with the startling change.
  10. Rat was the preferred nickname of the musician Gareth Pring (born 8 November 1970, Sedgley, West Midlands)http://www.nme.com/artists/neds-atomic-dustbin
  11. Rat Subterranean News, New York's second major underground newspaper, was created in March 1968, primarily by editor Jeff Shero, Alice Embree and Gary Thiher, who moved up from Austin, Texas, where they had been involved in The Rag.
  12. This is a partial list of characters in the comic strip Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis.
  13. 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. ...
  14. (1) RATs) RATs is the abbreviated form of Remote Administration Tools, most commonly known as Trojans. RATs generally help a hacker to gain remote access to a target computer system. After installing the Trojan horse on the victims PC, the hacker can take control of the computer. ...
  15. (RATs (Remote Administration Tools)) allow an attacker to gain unrestricted access to your computer whenever you are online. The attacker can perform activities such as file transfers, adding/deleting files or programs, and controlling the mouse and keyboard. ...
  16. (RATs) Recruits-at-Training - status during first 21/28 days at NMMI
  17. (Rats) 1994. Impact/MCA Records
  18. (Rats) Aspects of yourself or others that probably frighten or disgust you. There could be problems ahead.
  19. (Rats) New York: Hyperion, 1999.
  20. (Rats) Player or NPC pirates. Also called NPCs to distinguish from player pirates.
  21. (Rats) The management of your school will leave as they find out about the financial problems in the company, without telling any of the teachers
  22. (Rats) Threat of cancer, betrayal
  23. (Rats) To dream of rats means there are enemies nearby.
  24. (Rats) name each other by a distignuishing physical characteristic and they are rarely complimentary or pleasing. Thus rate will have names like Black Fang, Chop Nose, Bent Tail, Redeye and so on. The most notable exception is Norway, whose name origin is not likely to be revealed soon.
  25. (rats) Rodents belonging to the genus Rattus. Rats transmit a wide variety of diseases to human beings. DISEASES CARRIED BY RATS