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ratfucker en · NOUN

Etymology

From rat + fucker or ratfuck + -er.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, offensive, slang, vulgar) A term of abuse.
   • "You were stealing from stealing from the kids, you miserable ratfucker,” said Shrake, who was putting on the cuffs. “Excuse me—I mean, you miserable ratfucker, sir.” 2014, John Sandford, Deadline, →ISBN:
   • He was in there, that little ratfucker. 2015, Lauren Dane, At Blade's Edge, →ISBN:
2. (US, derogatory, slang, vulgar) Someone who engages in sabotage and dirty tricks, especially one involved in the Watergate scandal.
   • For the first time, he considered the possibility that the President of the United States was the head ratfucker. 2007, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, All the President's Men, →ISBN, page 129:
   • The FBI questioned Rove, but dropped its investigation of the small fry. Yet he would become the greatest ratfucker of them all. 2008, Sidney Blumenthal, The Strange Death of Republican America, →ISBN:
   • The Republican operatives called their sabotage operations ratfucking, and the chief ratfucker was one Donald Segretti. 2008, Larry J. Kolb, America at Night, →ISBN:

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