1.
[syn: informing, ratting]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Rat \Rat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ratted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Ratting.]
1. In English politics, to desert one's party from interested
motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own
advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on
other conditions, than those established by a trades
union.
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Coleridge . . . incurred the reproach of having
ratted, solely by his inability to follow the
friends of his early days. --De Quincey.
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2. To catch or kill rats.
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2. To be an informer (against an associate); to inform (on an
associate); to squeal; -- used commonly in the phrase to
rat on.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ratting \Rat"ting\ (r[a^]t"t[i^]ng), n.
1. The conduct or practices of one who rats. See Rat, v.
i., 1. --Sydney Smith.
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2. 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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
ratting
n 1: to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law
(usually in return for favors) [syn: informing,
ratting]