rat fuck

rat fuck

English

Alternative forms

• rat-fuck
• ratfuck

Noun

rat fuck (plural rat fucks)

1. (vulgar, military slang) A combat assault.
   • 1982, Edward Doyle & ‎Samuel Lipsman, America Takes Over, page 174:

     Silhouettes in the darkness before a rat fuck (combat assault) have a kind of fatalistic presence.

   • 1990, Matthew Brennan & ‎Paul McCarthy, Hunter Killer Squadron, →ISBN, page 237:

     Nobody wanted to fly real combat missions with him, so they usually sent him on the rat fucks.

2. (vulgar) A violent or disastrous situation.
   • 1990, Rick Mackin, Gulf Attack, →ISBN, page 146:

     This whole thing's been such a giant rat fuck right from the start that I don't know what I think anymore.

   • 1996, Charles W. Sasser, Smokejumpers, →ISBN, page 141:

     Word spread among the hotshots: "It's a big rat fuck. They don't know from a frog's ass what to do with us.

   • 1996, David H. Hackworth & ‎Tom Mathews, Hazardous Duty, →ISBN:

     Every soldier I talked to had a horror story to tell about the company's deployment from Germany. Nothing went right. "A royal rat fuck, snorted one sergeant

   • 2010, Robert K. Tanenbaum, Reckless Endangerment, →ISBN:

     “Well, wasn't that a rat fuck?” said Raney, who was sitting in Karp's office with Fulton.

3. (vulgar) An overcrowded party.
   • 1987, W. McPherson, Sargasso Sea, page 87:

     “I much prefer a quiet supper to one ofthese”—he was about to say “rat fucks,” but restrained himself—“one of these after-the-opening feeding frenzies in some designer shark tent.”

   • 1998, Sally Quinn, The Party: A Guide to Adventurous Entertaining, →ISBN, page 42:

     There is nobody alive who has not been to a rat fuck, or P.R.F.

   • 2012, Jackie Collins, L.A. Connections, →ISBN:

     'We should've taken a limo,' he moaned. 'This is gonna be a rat fuck.'

4. (vulgar) Something worthless.
   • 1996, The New Yorker - Volume 71, page 84:

     Two of them didn't give a rat fuck and the third one, the Brazilian preacher, was too busy talking Bible to notice anything but the traffic in front of him.

   • 2010, Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons, →ISBN, page 349:

     “. . . don't give a rat fuck, personally. . .”

   • 2011, K. Oliver, Renegade’s Lady, →ISBN, page 252:

     It had been all he could do most nights not to maul her while he pretended to give a rat fuck about those sports parties she always threw surrounded by idiots that didn't see what he saw in Kara.

5. Alternative form of ratfuck
   1. One who engages in dirty tricks.
      • 1997, Mike Mcalary, Cop Land: A Novel Based on the Screenplay by James Mangold, →ISBN:

        Sometimes it seemed they had all of copdom wired for sight and sound. "I don't drop dimes," Babitch said. "I may be a schmuck, but I'm not a rat fuck.

      • 2000, Anthony L. Williams, The Derelict, →ISBN, page 145:

        Hell hath no fury as two black bitches flyin' high on the trail of a rat fuck.

   2. Someone despicable.
      • 2001, David Ramus, On Ice, →ISBN, page 230:

        The rat fuck stopped breathing before he told us where he'd stashed the collection.

      • 2013, S. M. Atwood, Goliath Fell, →ISBN, page 243:

        I saw that rat fuck trying to hurt my little girl!

      • 2014, K'wan, Road Dawgz, →ISBN:

        Pooh was a greedy rat fuck and he had to be put down.

   3. An act of sabotage.
      • 2003, Vanity Fair - Volume 66, page 197:

        Some Times people, though, were disturbed by what they saw that day. One calls it "a media rat fuck."

Verb

rat fuck (third-person singular simple present rat fucks, present participle rat fucking, simple past and past participle rat fucked)

1. Alternative form of rat-fuck, to sabotage or betray
   • 1993, Warren Hinkle, Argonaut: Crazies!, →ISBN, page 196:

     He recovered, as he says, his "sanity" in 1985 after more than two turbulent decades of "rat fucking" in various parts of the world, and surfaced in Europe where he lives with his family and misses no opportunity to aggravate the ulcers of his former employers by revealing what he knows about the secret diplomacy of the U.S. Intelligence community.

   • 2013, Alan Soldofsky, In the Buddha Factory, →ISBN, page 21:

     To cut taxes again for the rich is to rat fuck the entire country.

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