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RATTING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ratting mean?
• RATTING (noun)
The noun RATTING has 1 sense:
1. to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors)
Familiarity information: RATTING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
To furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
informing; ratting
Hypernyms ("ratting" is a kind of...):
disclosure; revealing; revelation (the speech act of making something evident)
Derivation:
rat (give away information about somebody)
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