ratting

Noun
Synonyms: informing

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors)Synonyms: informing
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

Coleridge . . . incurred the reproach of having ratted, solely by his inability to follow the friends of his early days.— De Quincey.[1913 Webster]

2.To catch or kill rats. [1913 Webster]

2.To be an informer (against an associate); to inform (on an associate); to squeal; -- used commonly in the phrase to rat on. [PJC]

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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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