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K-rat

K-rat is the clipping of K-ration.

K-rat is the abbreviation of kangaroo rat.

Meaning of K-ration

Noun

K-ration (plural K-rations)

  1. An individual daily combat food ration introduced by the United States Army during World War II and comprising three courses for breakfast, lunch and supper.
    • The K ration is packed in three separate boxes containing breakfast, dinner, and supper. It contains two kinds of biscuit, canned meats, coffee tablets, concentrated bouillon, lemon juice powder, chocolate bar and chewing gum.1943 February, “12,000,000 meals a day”, in Popular Mechanics, page 86
    Synonyms:
    Keys ration, K-rat

Meaning of kangaroo rat

Noun

kangaroo rat (plural kangaroo rats)

  1. Any of many different species in genus Dipodomys, rodents that move about by hopping.

Synonyms of K-rat

  • Keys ration

Forms of K-rat

pluralK-rats

Questions about K-rat

What is K-rat the clipping of?
K-rat is the clipping of K-ration.

Words near K-rat in the dictionary

  1. K-Quarantine
  2. k-rad
  3. K-rage
  4. K-rail
  5. K-rails
  6. K-rat
  7. K-ration
  8. K-rations
  9. K-Rod
  10. K-selection
  11. K-shaped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: K-rat (page history and authors); K-ration (page history and authors); kangaroo rat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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