ratcheting

R•å•ch•ė•t•ï•ng: n. Twerking in the middle of the street and whipping you weave back and forth.

She was the best at ratcheting

by MDiddy October 4, 2013

Ratchet

Slang term for a gun

He pulled out the ratchet and started dumpin

by Logielow June 11, 2006

Ratchet

Means Nasty,Crazy, Incredible

Man that girl was fuckin Ratchet.

by GuttaKing October 23, 2008

Ratchet

Someone or something hella ghetto. Educated people say wretched but with a ghetto people say ratchet. Tomato/tomatoe, wretched/ratchet.

Ratchets never win spelling bees.

My friends Norma and Michael are straight ratchets. They communicate by twerking.

by IndiaMaria September 22, 2013

Ratchet

A cold, heartless, ghetto-ass bitch with a big ole bootie. A chick who won't let you even beat off or fuck a whore. Based on the character Nurse Ratchet from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

When nurse ratchet won't let McMurphy fuck his prostitute girlfriend, she was being real ratchet.

by Swagnificent July 5, 2012

Ratchet

Females who take pride in bullying fighting and are all about the drama, for whatever reason. This is a ratchet.

Example 1

Ratchet: Oh, look lets go bully and try to fight with that girl.

Non Ratchet girl:Girl walks away from the fight, and says "you're not worth it."

Example 2
Any woman middle age and beyond stuck living in the high school days, past. This is Ratchet.

Men can be ratchet, it has been proven as well.

by cray1 February 18, 2013

Ratchet

The term ratchet, from a derogatory sense of the term, stems from drug use. A "ratchet" in slang usually refers to someone who is "ghetto", unkept, and unable to keep steady work. It's particularly derogatory towards lower class women. However it's use first comes from deep drug addiction where "ratchet" refers to someone (more often a woman apparently) that got into the grips of drug addiction from a drug dealer. We all have seen the faces of meth and what drug addiction can do to the body and face. So that's where its roots come from. Ratchet then became popularized with the musical genre Trap, a kind of instrumental electronic music with influences from "dirty south" rap. So from the recesses of drug addiction to pop culture and morphed into people who just can't take care of themselves.

Dude: "Wow do you see that prostitute over there buying crack?"
Other Dude: "Yep, ratchet."

by just_another_dude November 12, 2015