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• Rat Boy — is a fictional character in the British adult comic Viz .He is an extreme caricature of the juvenile delinquent and criminal underclass, who lives by theft, has a strong drug habit and defies the law as openly as his youth allows. Originally… …   Wikipedia

• Rat — Taxobox name = Rats fossil range = Early Pleistocene – Recent image width = 200px image caption = The common Brown Rat ( Rattus norvegicus ) regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Rodentia superfamilia = Muroidea familia =… …   Wikipedia

• Rat King — Comiccharacterbox caption = The cover of Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Vol. 1 #4, the first appeance of the Rat King. Art by Jim Lawson and Steve Lavigne. character name = Rat King publisher = Mirage Studios debut = Tales of the… …   Wikipedia

• rat —    In modern times this is nearly always a term of contempt, though ‘you rat’, like most insults, can be turned into a covert endearment in the right circumstances. When a woman calls her lover ‘Rat!’ in The Philanderer, by Stanley Kauffmann, it… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• rat — [[t]ræt[/t]] n. interj. v. rat•ted, rat•ting 1) mam any of several long tailed rodents of the Old World family Muridae, esp. of the genus Rattus, resembling but larger than mice 2) mam any of various similar rodents of other families 3) sts Slang …   From formal English to slang

• rat-kangaroo — noun a small rat like Australian marsupial with long hindlimbs used for hopping. [Family Potoroidae: several species.] …   English new terms dictionary

• Rat (newspaper) — Rat Subterranean News, New York s second major underground newspaper, was created in March 1968, primarily by editor Jeff Shero, [ Jeff Shero s name became Jeff Nightbyrd at some point after he left Rat. ] Alice Embree and Gary Thiher, who moved… …   Wikipedia

• rat's-tail — rat sˈ tail or ratˈ tail noun 1. The tail of a rat 2. Anything like a rat s tail 3. A thin coherent dangling lock of hair 4. An excrescence on a horse s leg 5. (ratˈ tail) the grenadier fish • • • Main Entry: ↑rat rat s …   Useful english dictionary

• Rat Park — was a study into drug addiction conducted in the 1970s by Canadian psychologist Bruce K. Alexander at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Alexander s hypothesis was that drugs do not cause addiction, and that the apparent… …   Wikipedia

• Rat bike — Rat bikes are motorcycles that, over time, have fallen apart but been kept on the road and maintained for next to nothing [http://www.ratbike.org/] . Survival bikes look similar to, but are different in purpose from rat bikes they are modified… …   Wikipedia