Meaning

3 senses
  1. The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus).

    brown rat commonly found in sewers

  2. (derogatory)A contemptible person.

    Kanalratte

  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: Any rat that lives in sewers.

    Kanalratte

Examples

4 sentences
  1. That's a sewer rat.

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  2. Ziri called Rima a sewer rat.

  3. Linda's dogs were the size of a New York City sewer rat.

  4. Can you see an owl eating a delicious sewer rat over there? That's me.

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Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a contemptible person:

Forms

plural: sewer rats
Singularsewer rat
Pluralsewer rats

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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