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rat
/ræt/ noun [C]Definition
ANIMAL › an animal that looks like a large mouse and has a long tail: Rats carry disease.
PERSON informal › an unpleasant, dishonest person
(Definition of rat noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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