Rat
One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the Norway, or brown, rat (M. decumanus), the black rat (M. rattus), and the roof rat (M. Alexandrinus). These were introduced into America from the Old World.
A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair.
One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union.
In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union.
To catch or kill rats.
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Rat Quotations
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
W. C. Fields
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Elizabeth Bowen
The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.
Stevie Nicks
You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.
Robert De Niro
To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.
Frank Shorter
Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
Michael Shermer
Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
Dick Cavett
We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.
Sonny Bono
You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit.
Sarah Jessica Parker
A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit!
Sarah Jessica Parker
It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.
Lorna Luft
The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
Daniel Berrigan
I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.
Joseph Barbera
The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.
Ray Liotta
I live like a crazy old pack rat.
Martha Plimpton
I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.
Kevin J. Anderson
Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze.
Teri Garr
When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.
Kenneth Grahame
How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?
Suge Knight
The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
Bernard De Voto
Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys.
Mary C. Jones
Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.
Boyle Roche
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
Ingrid Newkirk
I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.
Tom Wilson
Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.
James Darren
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Rat Translations
rat in Afrikaans is rot
rat in Danish is rotte
rat in Dutch is rot, rat
rat in Finnish is rotta
rat in French is rat
rat in German is Ratte
rat in Italian is ratto
rat in Norwegian is rotte
rat in Portuguese is rato
rat in Spanish is rata
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