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Dice, i.e. craps
I couldn’t give a rats arse! I don’t care!
, (POP-in a CAL-er) v., pres. participle.   A style of dancing in which the dancer holds his/her collar and rocks gently to the music. “Those hood rats are always poppin’ a collar.†[Etym., Hip hop]
Circular or conical metal plates attached to a ship's berthing hawsers (mooring lines) to prevent rats getting aboard. In some cases they also prevent sailors from sneaking ashore by climbing down the hawsers.
Term used to add emphasis to a statement, usually used with negative connotations, for example "She cried for an hour when I dumped her but she'd pissed me off so much I really couldn't give a rats arse about her!".
C-rations, C-rats, Charlie rats, or combat rations--canned meals used in military operations. The term "Charlie" was both the phonetic alphabetization of the "C" in C-rations and signified the enemy or enemy activity. Pgs. 506, 507 & 508
Noun. Pigeons. From being considered vermin, like rats.
Ratshit is Australian slang for worthless, inferior, utterly disappointing.
Noun. Nonsense, rubbish. E.g."In my opinion it all went to ratshit when we sold our star player."
Give a person rats is slang for berate or rebuke.
– The bilge is the lowest level of the ship. It’s loaded with ballast and slimy, reeking water. A bilge rat, then, is a rat that lives in the worst place on the ship. Pirates, just like their modernday counterparts (regular guys), love to joke and jibe with their buddies. By all means, Pirates will call their buddies “bilge rats.â€
Junior sailors who are employed by the senior members to spread rumours.
An alternate expression to "rat's ass", used in an attempt to make the statement even more colloquial. eg. "I don't give a rat's rim what he said!". More common on the east coast.
Rats is Australian slang for deranged; insane.
Get rats is Australian and New Zealand slang eccentric or insane.
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An order of mammals having two (rarely four) large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order.
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Any one of various species of small carnivores belonging to the genus Putorius, as the ermine and ferret. They have a slender, elongated body, and are noted for the quickness of their movements and for their bloodthirsty habit in destroying poultry, rats, etc. The ermine and some other species are brown in summer, and turn white in winter; others are brown at all seasons.
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Rat poison; white arsenic.
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One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party.
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An extensive group of rodents which includes the rats, mice, jerboas, and many allied forms.
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A kind of leather made of the skin of the young goat, or of the skin of rats, etc.
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An animal of the Weasel family (Mustela / Putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes.
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Arsenious oxide or arsenious anhydride; -- called also arsenious acid, white arsenic, and ratsbane.
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Any one of a tribe (Sigmodontes) of rodents which includes all the indigenous rats and mice of America. So called from the form of the ridges of enamel on the crowns of the worn molars. Also used adjectively.
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The conduct or practices of one who rats. See Rat, v. i., 1.
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A noxious or mischievous animal; especially, noxious little animals or insects, collectively, as squirrels, rats, mice, flies, lice, bugs, etc.
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The low sport of setting a dog upon rats confined in a pit to see how many he will kill in a given time.
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Poisoned by ratsbane.
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Any species of large West Indian rodents of the genus Capromys, or Utia. In general appearance and habits they resemble rats, but they are as large as rabbits.
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An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
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To catch or kill rats.
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Anything which catches rats; esp., a dog trained to catch rats; a rat terrier. See Terrier.
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