When you expect to get something and you're extremely excited but then it turns out the whole idea was just some kind of sick joke.
Mum: Will, open your present! I know you'll ADORE it!
Will: *Hopes that it is the new gaming console, the Xbox 360*
Dad: *Smiles proudly, hoping that Will would be happy*
Will: *Tears open the present* π Mate, dis is a facking book *Reads title* Holy crap, I'm not some sort of nerd mate, I don't read Dictionary's bruh
Brought to public attention by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the book on the fall of Richard Nixon, All The Presidentβs Men, ratfucker was Nixonβs term for a political operative who sows chaos among opponents; an agent provocateur. It is thought to have originated among campus political rivalries at USC, and seems to have some usage in the US military.
Along with Nixonβs other ratfuckers, Roger Stone caused fights at otherwise peaceful Democratic Party protests to generate a false narrative that the Democrats were violent and dangerous.