Crossword-Solution: RAT
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| Rat | n. | 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. |
| Rat | n. | A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair. |
| Rat | n. | One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union. |
| Rat | v. i. | 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. |
| Rat | v. i. | To catch or kill rats. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RAT | anagram | ART, RTA, TAR, TRA |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with RAT (5)
Strange night! Strangest in this, that so soon as dawn had come, I, who had talked with God, crept out of the house like a rat leaving its hiding place—a creature scarcely larger, an inferior animal, a thing that for any passing whim of our masters might be hunted and killed.
Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face? If it was my master, why did he cry out like a rat, and run from me? I have served him long enough.
The brave eagle, captured, and with noble wings clipped, was doomed to endure the gnawing of the rat.
The rat gets into a trap; gets out with trouble; infers that cheese in traps lacks value, and meddles with that trap no more.
And when you throw at a rat or anything, hitch yourself up a tiptoe and fetch your hand up over your head as awkward as you can, and miss your rat about six or seven foot.
Quotes with RAT (3)
Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire. They bare their teeth at you from out of their rat holes, thinking that you take pleasure in letting your brilliance dim them - while you'd…
Where's Simon?" Clary interrupted. Isabelle wobbled. "He's a rat," she said darkly. Did he do something to you?" Alec was full of brotherly concern. "Did he touch you? If he tried anything-""She's drunk," said Jace, beginning to turn away in disgust. I'm not," Isabelle said indignantly. "Well, maybe a little, but that's not the point. The point is, Simon drank one of those blue drinks- I told him not to, but he didn't listen- and he turned into a rat.
I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants.
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYM, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 1,651 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).