rats

/ ræts /

interjection

1. an exclamation of rejection or disdain

adjective

1. slang.
   deranged; insane

Example Sentences

And in a city with large slums and poor sanitation, rats can thrive easily, fleas and all, to spread the plague.

From The Daily Beast

The researchers first isolated a set of cells known as neural stem cells (NSCs) from the brains of rats.

From The Daily Beast

Alf Adams did not want to talk rats but he did want to show me his bottle collection preserved in a dusty shed.

From The Daily Beast

“Did you want to know about rats,” he asked, finally, as we walk down the hill to drink tea in his living room.

From The Daily Beast

Remember when Chandler was sexually attracted to sharks and Phoebe raised a litter of baby rats?

From The Daily Beast

Ney and Marmont did not accompany the other Commissioners with their sorrowful terms; like rats they left the sinking ship.

From Project Gutenberg

But the next time that the two rats went out together, poor Simple did not come off so well.

From Project Gutenberg

He had known men who were almost as sly as rats; but on the whole he looked upon them as inferior beings.

From Project Gutenberg

Rats, however, are commonly infected as if by a miasm before the disease appears in man.

From Project Gutenberg

Rats burrow along a drain pipe from the sewer into the house and admit sewer gas.

From Project Gutenberg