rat fuck

A form of ratfuck — To steal or disorganize items that do not belong to one.

Meanings

nounrat fuck (plural rat fucks)

plural rat fucks

  1. alternativeAlternative form of ratfuck.

    “Well, wasn't that a rat fuck?” said Raney, who was sitting in Karp's office with Fulton.

    2010, Robert K. Tanenbaum, Reckless Endangerment, →ISBN
    5 more examples

    Silhouettes in the darkness before a rat fuck (combat assault) have a kind of fatalistic presence.

    1982, Edward Doyle, Samuel Lipsman, America Takes Over, page 174

    Nobody wanted to fly real combat missions with him, so they usually sent him on the rat fucks.

    1990, Matthew Brennan, Paul McCarthy, Hunter Killer Squadron, →ISBN, page 237

    This whole thing's been such a giant rat fuck right from the start that I don't know what I think anymore.

    1990, Rick Mackin, Gulf Attack, →ISBN, page 146

    Word spread among the hotshots: "It's a big rat fuck. They don't know from a frog's ass what to do with us.

    1996, Charles W. Sasser, Smokejumpers, →ISBN, page 141

    Every soldier I talked to had a horror story to tell about the company's deployment from Germany. Nothing went right. "A royal rat fuck, snorted one sergeant

    1996, David H. Hackworth, Tom Mathews, Hazardous Duty, →ISBN
verbrat fuck (third-person singular simple present rat fucks, present participle rat fucking, simple past and past participle rat fucked)

present singular third person rat fucks · participle present rat fucking · participle past rat fucked · past rat fucked

  1. alternativeAlternative form of ratfuck.

    To cut taxes again for the rich is to rat fuck the entire country.

    2013, Alan Soldofsky, In the Buddha Factory, →ISBN, page 21
    1 more example

    He recovered, as he says, his "sanity" in 1985 after more than two turbulent decades of "rat fucking" in various parts of the world, and surfaced in Europe where he lives with his family and misses no opportunity to aggravate the ulcers of his former employers by revealing what he knows about the secret diplomacy of the U.S. Intelligence community.

    1993, Warren Hinkle, Argonaut: Crazies!, →ISBN, page 196
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