Boggle Word Finder
RAT
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
1
pts
Big
too short
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Super Big
too short
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RAT is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).
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noun
- Any of the numerous members of several rodent families that usually have short limbs, a pointy snout, a long, hairless tail, and a body length greater than about 12 cm, or 5 inches.
- A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.
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informalA person who is known for betrayal.
- rat bastard
- What a rat, leaving us stranded here!
- informalAn informant or snitch.
- informalA scab: a worker who acts against trade union policies.
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slangA person who routinely spends time at a particular location.
- Our teenager has become a mall rat.
- He loved hockey and was a devoted rink rat.
- A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.
- A roll of material used to puff out the hair, which is turned over it.
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UKslangvulgarVagina, vulva.
- Get your rat out.
- abbreviationellipsisinformalEllipsis of muskrat.
- regionalA scratch or a score.
- regionalA place in the sea with rapid currents and crags where a ship is likely to be torn apart in stormy weather.
- slangA ration.
verb
- usuallyTo hunt or kill rats.
- intransitiveTo betray a political party, cause or principle; to betray someone, to desert a person or thing.
- informalintransitiveTo work as a scab, going against trade union policies.
- USTo backcomb (hair).
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intransitiveTo inform on someone; to betray someone to the police or authorities.
- He ratted on his coworker.
- He is going to rat us out!
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regionalTo scratch or score.
- He ratted a vertical line on his face with a pocket knife.
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obsoleterareregionalTo tear, rip, rend.
- Ratted to shreds.
- Damn, drat, blast; used in oaths.