Meaning

5 senses
  1. Anything which catches rats, especially a dog trained to catch them.

    any of several breeds of terrier developed to catch rats

  2. Anything which catches rats, especially a dog trained to catch them.

    A rat dog.

  3. A rat dog.

    A rat terrier.

  4. One who rats; a traitor; a deserter.

  5. A pirate miner, a miner who digs out ore or paydirt clandestinely and runs

Origin

From rat + -er.

From rat + -er.

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Forms

plural: ratters

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedrat

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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