An 'alphabet of rats' is the collective noun for a group of rats. Because rats barrel, belt, blast, blaze, blow, bolt, bomb, bowl, breeze, bundle, bustle, buzz, cannonball, careen, career, chase, course, crack, dash, drive, fly, hare, hasten, hie, highball, hotfoot, hump, hurl, hurry, hurtle, hustle, jet, jump, motor, nip, pelt, race, ram, rip, rocket, run, rush, rustle, scoot, scurry, shoot, speed, step, tear, travel, trot, whirl, whisk, zip, zoom around.
by Blueteddy February 6, 2022

by jtnvhntbhunthrb3 January 25, 2022

An unsanctioned bandit foot-race through an urban environment where participants choose their own route through traffic-filled city streets and alleyways. A Rat Race usually has multiple checkpoints, but may also have a single destination. — The running equivalent of an alleycat race.
by misterroach November 27, 2018

Rat Letting
Like bloodletting but for when work in hospitality and the place you work gives food to the young F.N.Gs doing work exp on their first job because they don't know any better or don't care so they'll work happily for free till work exp is over when they don't get hired and then the next F.N.Gs come in so they don't have to pay anyone not doing skilled labour whom they still only pay minimum wage who don't get to eat the food because unlike F.N.Gs who's free labour' counts as actual alternative method of payment making able to mark them as paying customers on the establishments taxes meaning what could have been a loss is now a sale making higher returns on their tax invoice and a s uptick in daily sales all together for franchising businesses like KFC ,red roster maccas / MacDonald's and hungry jacks/burger king equalling a lot higher profit margin per year making the company's stock gain an edge over others to make even more money and more problems for everyone else.
Like bloodletting but for when work in hospitality and the place you work gives food to the young F.N.Gs doing work exp on their first job because they don't know any better or don't care so they'll work happily for free till work exp is over when they don't get hired and then the next F.N.Gs come in so they don't have to pay anyone not doing skilled labour whom they still only pay minimum wage who don't get to eat the food because unlike F.N.Gs who's free labour' counts as actual alternative method of payment making able to mark them as paying customers on the establishments taxes meaning what could have been a loss is now a sale making higher returns on their tax invoice and a s uptick in daily sales all together for franchising businesses like KFC ,red roster maccas / MacDonald's and hungry jacks/burger king equalling a lot higher profit margin per year making the company's stock gain an edge over others to make even more money and more problems for everyone else.
by Helmet Hair February 8, 2018

by CarwynIestyn July 27, 2025

I feel bad for Rat, so it's time to fix his lore.
A rat in the kitchen is a pest that poisons/taints the food with it's filth.
A rat in the home is a smart, affectionate, lucky charm. Course, that's only if you keep it clean.
A rat in reference of a person is someone who corrupts the home with filth, lies, manipulation, abuse, and because they are vermin, they won't stop eating. Instead of thinking of a snitch, think of someone who lies while switching between two people so they can get away with stealing things while the others are too paranoid to trust each other.
A rat in the kitchen is a pest that poisons/taints the food with it's filth.
A rat in the home is a smart, affectionate, lucky charm. Course, that's only if you keep it clean.
A rat in reference of a person is someone who corrupts the home with filth, lies, manipulation, abuse, and because they are vermin, they won't stop eating. Instead of thinking of a snitch, think of someone who lies while switching between two people so they can get away with stealing things while the others are too paranoid to trust each other.
by Dire42 March 15, 2021
