1
as in informant
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing
the drug mule refused to turn rat without a guarantee of immunity
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2
as in lover
someone who regularly spends time in a particular place
on Friday night the mall rats were out in full force
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3
as in bastard
a person whose behavior is offensive to others
no one can understand what she finds appealing in a rat like him
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as in to leak
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Recent Examples of rat
Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
Tenants complained publicly for months about living among rats, mice, cockroaches and bed bugs.
—Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2025
Not so at Brooklyn Horror, where Timms avoids taking credit and instead heaps praise on his organizers and volunteers… while waxing poetic on the redemptive quality of rats.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2025
After their visits, stuff is always missing from my house — a hairbrush, my dog’s electric nail file, random dishes and plates, rat traps, laundry detergent packets, dollar store craft items, etc.
—Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
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Verb
From the moment babies — rat babies, human babies, and just about every other kind of baby — are born, their brains build on experience.
—Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
Tenants complained publicly for months about living among rats, mice, cockroaches and bed bugs.
—Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2025
Not so at Brooklyn Horror, where Timms avoids taking credit and instead heaps praise on his organizers and volunteers… while waxing poetic on the redemptive quality of rats.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2025
After their visits, stuff is always missing from my house — a hairbrush, my dog’s electric nail file, random dishes and plates, rat traps, laundry detergent packets, dollar store craft items, etc.
—Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rat
Noun
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Merlino came out on top after a hitman allegedly hired by Stanfa, spurned by Stanfa's refusal to pay him, became an informant for the FBI, per CBS News.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Oct. 2025
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Though Cory lets the info slip to Celine as a bargaining chip, another informant spills the beans.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Art lovers can spend an afternoon at Museo Frida Kahlo or Museo Jumex, both essential stops for a dose of local culture.—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Oct. 2025
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Doing so might cost the officer who Kyle shot to expose the many misdeeds of the Kingstown Police Department, if Mike can’t effectively get State Attorney, and former lover, Evelyn Foley (Necar Zadegan) to drop the charges against his brother.—
Demetrius Patterson,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Oct. 2025
Verb
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To steal the pixels, the malicious app will display a stack of semi-transparent filters over the authenticator app, creating a way to leak and discern the pixels displayed through Android’s graphics rendering pipeline.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
14 Oct. 2025
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Away games, school trips, and family vacations call for a travel-size scent that won’t leak as it gets jostled inside a duffel bag.—
Jake Henry Smith,
Glamour,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Frizer and Skeres were fraudsters, and the sinister Poley was an informer, crucial to the exposure of the Babington Plot.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Option 2: If one prisoner informs while the other stays silent, the informer will go free while the silent one receives the harshest sentence.—
Michael Ashley,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
Noun
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One year later, Nashville's become her biggest fan.—
Hadley Hitson,
Nashville Tennessean,
27 Oct. 2025
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Fast and Free High-rise Tight 25-inch 5-pocket There’s simply no such thing as having too many pockets, as exhibited by these fan-favorite five-pocket leggings, which are currently $69.—
Sophie Dodd,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Bring your dogs, your kids, your grandparents.—
Jordyn Noennig,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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His Pumas teammates and coach know how important the dog is to Ramsey.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Connor called 911 for help, and authorities tried to locate Mallory while also talking to the rest of the friends about what happened.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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Her focus is less on the reason for the decline than on the question of why people—even close family members—stopped talking with one another.—
Alex Kotlowitz,
The Atlantic,
29 Oct. 2025
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Like canaries in the coal mine ocean form.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
16 Oct. 2025
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Here’s what the canaries are telling us.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Rat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rat. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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