The first of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.

simple past tense and past participle of rat

(Britain, slang) intoxicated

present participle of rat

(archaic) The blood sport of setting a dog upon rats confined in a pit to see how many he will kill in a given time.

(transitive) To tattle, squeal about (someone)

plural of ratting

(medicine, countable) Initialism of rapid antigen test. / (aviation, countable) Initialism of ram air turbine. / (computing, countable) Initialism of remote-access Trojan.

The quality of being a rat; rattiness.

(chiefly informal) Short for muskrat.