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1. A person, usually a teenager, who acts like a little shit. Shitrats are usually also wangsters, in that they dress and act like thugs. Most shitrats smoke pot and/or drink, and most have or will end up having criminal records. Shitrats enjoy pissing people off, and usually use homophobic or childish insults. Shitrats won't fight unless there are at least ten times as many of them. Shitrats have little regard for other people, preferring to talk down to anyone and everyone, even their shitrat friends. Shitrats usually mature into junkies. The term originated in St. Margaret's Bay, Nova Scotia.

2. A name Jim Lahey gives to Bubbles' cats on Trailer Park Boys, a popular Canadian TV show. Origin of the above term, Bubbles' cats were always getting into shit.
1. Bob: There's a group of thugs in the alley, let's not go down there.

Jim: They're just shitrats, they won't do a fucking thing.

2. Lahey: Hey! Corey and Trevor! Make sure you round up every one of these shitrats, they're ruining the park.
Shitrat by Alpha-1 June 11, 2010
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shit·rat

–noun
1. A compound noun, joining the word 'shit' in its adjectival, derogatory sense and 'rat' in its slang noun sense (a person who abandons or betrays his or her party or associates).
2. Slang. Derogatory term used to describe a thoroughly disliked person.
3. Victim of unfortunate circumstances or irony perceived by the speaker of the word as a somewhat comedic situation.

-adjective
1. Slang. Closely related to its definition as a noun: it can be used to describe a person or situation. However, in it's current form it poses several grammatical contradictions to the English Language. If one is particularly concerned about grammatical fluency, they may feel inclined to use the term 'shitratworthiness'.
-noun
1. He's got himself into a shit situation because he betrayed all his friends like the rat he is: the most ideal and conventional scenario in which to use the word 'shitrat'.
2. I hate everything about that guy, he's a real shitrat.
3. So it turned out that there was nothing wrong with his exhaust but after five minutes of driving away from the garage, his exhaust fell off; what a shitrat!

-adjective
1. Your hair looks shitrat today OR there's a certain shitratworthiness about your hair that I can't deny.
shitrat by $hab December 25, 2008
One who burrows through the discarded debris in a skip, looking for items which may still be of value and/or useful to said skiprat. Much like a modern day Womble. Needless to say, such activity is viewed as "a bit pikey" by the average man on the street, who prefers his kitchen sink to come from a more reputable source.
Janet: Bollocks, a load of stuffs fallen out...
John: yeah, a skiprat's been at it

Shouted from a moving vehicle: "SKIPRAT!"
skiprat by Putt September 17, 2005
People who camp on Alaskan beaches while they work in the canneries for the summer. Generally friendly, often possess good marijuana.
Did you see the camp of spitrats out on the beach?
Spitrat by Lanikai July 13, 2009

Skit rat 

A total minger, who on first glance causes your stomach to turn and your eyes to bleed
Steve: hey bill have you seen that fucking skit rat
Bill: OMG MY EYES!!!!
Skit rat by Gildar July 29, 2012
CopSpeak for young offender. Rat similar to Mallrat, and always in shit, causing shit, being a shit, etc.
This trailer park is full of shitrats, said Officer Green.
shitrat by Fat Edgar September 8, 2007