rat-fuck

English

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Verb

rat-fuck (third-person singular simple present rat-fucks, present participle rat-fucking, simple past and past participle rat-fucked)

  1. To sabotage, fight dirty, or betray.
    • 1990, Bruce E. Jones, War Without Windows, →ISBN, page 28:
      He rat-fucks every MI type he can, especially the new guys who don't know any better.
    • 2005, Larry Jackson Kolb, Overworld: Confessions of a Reluctant Spy, →ISBN, page 248:
      Larry, what I'm trying to say is the Soviets were rat-fucking us all over the earth, so we decided to fight them back the same way.
    • 2008, James Lee Burke, Swan Peak, →ISBN, page 656:
      He'll rat-fuck his friends, and he'll rat-fuck you.
    • 2010, David Marr, Quarterly Essay, →ISBN, page 1:
      “Those Chinese fuckers are trying to rat-fuck us,” declared Kevin Rudd.
  2. Alternative form of ratfuck
    • 2011, George P. Pelecanos, The Cut
      Nance rat-fucked through their pockets, coughing against the stench of Tavon's voided bowels, and found their phones.

Noun

rat-fuck (plural rat-fucks)

  1. Alternative form of ratfuck
    1. One who engages in dirty tricks
      • 2008, Arlene Hunt, Missing Presumed Dead, →ISBN, page 179:
        And he needed to find that little rat-fuck Jimmy Dunne to find out why some bitch had been in his local bar asking questions about him, and how she had connected his name to Katie Jones.
    2. A despicable person
      • 1987, Don Hendrie, A survey of the Atlantic beaches: a novel, →ISBN, page 57:
        "And your son?" She shrugged. "He'll be with his rat-fuck of a father until I send for him.
      • 1989, National Journal - Volume 21, Issues 40-52, page 2708:
        “But I think he is generally a decent guy, not a rat-fuck like some of these IGs."
      • 2014, Dorothy Davies, Dangerous Dreams, →ISBN, page 168:
        “He's a rat-fuck... just like this rat-fuck bitch!” Primo kicked Juliette hard in the ribs. “When he wakes up I want him followed to whatever sewer he crawled out of!” Primo slobbered commands. “I want his rat-fuck Papa and his rat-fuck Maman... and any other rat-fuck he knows put to fucking death!”
    3. An act of sabotage
      • 2016, J. Lee Webster, Gullible's Travels: Raw & Uncut, →ISBN, page 147:
        Other rat-fucks are as simple as putting vodka in their water bottles and watching their fellow teammate take a huge mostly-odorless swig of it in dire thirst at half-time.
  2. Alternative form of rat fuck
    1. A violent or disastrous situation
      • 1996, Carsten Stroud, Iron Bravo: Hearts, Minds, and Sergeants in the U.S. Army, →ISBN, page 68:
        This isn't Disneyland, it's real life, and most of real life is a rat-fuck.
      • 2006, Carsten Stroud, Cobraville: A Novel, →ISBN, page 12:
        What was actually happening here was obvious to anyone with a functioning cortex: Iligan City was the yawning iron gate of yet another United Nations feel-good rat-fuck.
      • 2011, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, page 1439126364:
        You are one of the few people who read my book on the Hell's Angels closely enough to realize that the whole thing was a wonderful rat-fuck and—as you put it—“a perpetual ball.”
    2. An overcrowded party
      • 2005, New York - Volume 39, page 38:
        In the words of socialite Celerie Kemble, it was a real "rat-fuck."
      • 2008, June Bingham, Braided Lives: A 20th-century Pursuit of Happiness, →ISBN, page 217:
        At a jam-packed reception Perle Mesta was giving at the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1956, Jack and I were following Marie down a few stairs and ogling all the celebrities. Suddenly, Marie turned back toward us. "This," she announced in her very audible deep voice, "is what I call a rat-fuck."
    3. Something of no value
      • 1987, Antoinette Azolakov, Cass and the Stone Butch, page 110:
        Because that woman that's dead in a coffin up there in Dallas with all those shitass relatives around her and them denying everything good she was in her life, that woman was my lover, and I don't give a rat-fuck what anybody thinks, I'm gonna find out what happened." .
      • 2005, The Spectator - Volumes 25-26, page 143:
        I didn't give a good rat-fuck about the law.

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