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rat on

rat on verb: to tattle, squeal about (someone).

Verb

rat on (third-person singular simple present rats on, present participle ratting on, simple past and past participle ratted on)

  1. (transitive) To tattle, squeal about (someone)
    • Who you protecting, you dumb asshole? A stoolie who rats on his own friends?1984 May 23, Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Franco Arcalli, Franco Ferrini, Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in America, spoken by Beefy (Frank Gio), Regency Enterprises & The...
    Synonyms:
    tell on

rat on meaning in Malayalam

rat on in Malayalam

inform on, be unfaithful to, betray
ഒറ്റു കൊടുക്കുക, കൂറുമാറുക, അറിവു കൊടുക്കുക, ചതിക്കുക, വഞ്ചിക്കുക, വിശ്വാസവഞ്ച ചെയ്യുക
renege on, break, go back on
വാഗ്ദാനം ലംഘിക്കുക, വാക്കുമാറുക, കാലുമാറുക, കരണംമറിയുക, പിൻമാറുക, പിന്നാക്കം വയ്ക്കുക

Synonyms of rat on

Forms of rat on

third-person singular presentrats on
present participleratting on
past participleratted on
pastratted on

Questions about rat on

What does rat on mean?
Rat on means to tattle, squeal about (someone).
What is rat on in Malayalam?
Rat on in Malayalam is ഒറ്റു കൊടുക്കുക, കൂറുമാറുക, അറിവു കൊടുക്കുക. See Rat on meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is rat on?
Rat on is a verb.
What is the past tense of rat on?
The past tense of rat on is ratted on.

Words near rat on in the dictionary

  1. rat kings
  2. rat lungworm
  3. rat lungworms
  4. rat mole
  5. rat moles
  6. rat on
  7. rat out
  8. rat pack
  9. rat packs
  10. rat pit
  11. rat pits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rat on (page history and authors); rat on (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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