ratfuck

ratfuck

English

Alternative forms

• rat-fuck
• rat fuck

Etymology

rat +‎ fuck.

Verb

ratfuck (third-person singular simple present ratfucks, present participle ratfucking, simple past and past participle ratfucked)

1. (vulgar, transitive, intransitive) To steal or disorganize items that do not belong to one.
   • 2007, Marcus Eriksen, My River Home: A Journey from the Gulf War to the Gulf of Mexico, →ISBN:

     In my brief absence they ratfucked my bag and distributed the contents among themselves.

   • 2010, Paul Thomas, The Ihaka Trilogy

     “If I was in your shoes pal, getting ratfucked would be the least of my worries.”

   • 2011, Evan Wright -, Generation Kill, →ISBN, page 410:

     I follow along with several on a mission to ratfuck the main office tower.

2. Alternative form of rat-fuck
   • 1990, Mick Farren, Mars: The Red Planet, →ISBN, page 136:

     Unless what's happening here is that we're getting ratfucked ourselves.

   • 2007, Larry Jackson Kolb, America at Night:

     Rove had been ratfucking for Republicans ever since.

   • 2010, Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, →ISBN:

     Ratfucking took money—and drained money away from throwing a proper national party convention.

Derived terms

• ratfucker

Noun

ratfuck (plural ratfucks)

1. (vulgar) Someone who engages in dirty tricks.
   • 2015, Walter Jon Williams, Conventions of War (Dread Empire's Fall Series): Dread Empire's Fall 3

     “I want the ratfucks who did this,” Sula said.

2. (vulgar, more generally) Someone despicable.
   • 2012, Robert Anasi, The Last Bohemia: Scenes from the Life of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, →ISBN:

     You ratfuck. You ratfuck! You gotta say something!

   • 2013, Matthew Stover, Caine's Law, →ISBN:

     I can't think of any plausible harm you can do. And I know you're not a ratfuck just for the sake of being a ratfuck.

   • 2014, George R. R. Martin, Wild Cards III: Jokers Wild, →ISBN:

     Yeah. Okay. I want the little ratfuck dead.

3. (vulgar) An act of sabotage or dirty tricks
   • 2010, Rick Perlstein -, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, →ISBN:

     The Humphrey campaign had been able to undo a ratfuck at the last minute by getting a notice into the Saturday Milwaukee Sentinel saying there would be no free lunch that afternoon with the candidate and Lorne Green of Bonanza, as advertised in a flyer circulated in the ghetto.

   • 2016, David Daley, Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count, →ISBN:

     The REDMAP ratfuck was done in such plain sight that Karl Rove himself announced it on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal.

4. Alternative form of rat fuck
   1. Violent or disastrous situation
      • 2002, David Drake -, Paying the Piper, →ISBN:

        The Lord knew, he'd always tried to do his job; but it was hard to see what good he was doing there, or what good he or anybody else could do in a ratfuck like Plattner's World was turning into

      • 2004, A. J. Liebling, Mollie and Other War Pieces, →ISBN, page 151:

        Whoever checked them out in a bomber ought to have his head examined. What a ratfuck!

      • 2003, Shelly Waxman, ‎James Nathan Post, & ‎J. D. Post, Piranhas on the Loose, →ISBN, page 29:

        So the LO] turned out to be a ratfuck, working with a bunch of clueless turkeys playing stupid games.

      • 2013, David Drake -, Northworld Trilogy, →ISBN:

        This was going to be a ratfuck, and the campaign that followed was going to be a bigger ratfuck... but that's what wars were, individual ratfucks multiplied by the number of combatants.

   2. An overcrowded party.
      • 2005, Carrie Fisher, The Best Awful: A Novel - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 7:

        That was the first thing Leland had ever said to her the first time she met him, at one of those Hollywood Hills ratfucks Lucy had dragged her to.

      • 2012, Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep, →ISBN, page 239:

        "Were you girls at the lunch?" my father asked. "What a ratfuck, huh?"

   3. Something of no value.
      • 2016, Thom Jones, The Pugilist at Rest: Stories, →ISBN:

        “I don't give a ratfuck,” he said.

See also

• Ratfucking is an American term for political sabotage or dirty tricks: ratfucking on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• artfuck