ratfuck

present singular third person ratfucks · participle present ratfucking · participle past ratfucked · past ratfucked · alternative rat-fuck · alternative rat fuck

1. intransitiveslangtransitivevulgarTo steal or disorganize items that do not belong to one.

   “I follow along with several on a mission to ratfuck the main office tower.”

   2011, Evan Wright, Generation Kill, →ISBN, page 410

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   “In my brief absence they ratfucked my bag and distributed the contents among themselves.”

   2007, Marcus Eriksen, My River Home: A Journey from the Gulf War to the Gulf of Mexico, →ISBN

   “If I was in your shoes pal, getting ratfucked would be the least of my worries.”

   2010, Paul Thomas, The Ihaka Trilogy, The Ihaka Trilogy page 349

2. slangvulgarTo sabotage; to fight dirty against or betray and cause disarray among.

   “Rove had been ratfucking for Republicans ever since.”

   2007, Larry Jackson Kolb, America at Night

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   “Unless what's happening here is that we're getting ratfucked ourselves.”

   1990, Mick Farren, Mars: The Red Planet, →ISBN, page 136

   “Ratfucking took money—and drained money away from throwing a proper national party convention.”

   2010, Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, →ISBN

3. slangvulgargovernmentTo interfere in an election.

plural ratfucks · alternative rat-fuck · alternative rat fuck

1. slangvulgarSomeone who engages in dirty tricks.

   “I want the ratfucks who did this,” Sula said.

   2015, Walter Jon Williams, Conventions of War (Dread Empire's Fall Series): Dread Empire's Fall 3

2. broadlyslangvulgarSomeone despicable.

   Yeah. Okay. I want the little ratfuck dead.

   2014, George R. R. Martin, Wild Cards III: Jokers Wild, →ISBN

   2 more examples

   You ratfuck. You ratfuck! You gotta say something!

   2012, Robert Anasi, The Last Bohemia: Scenes from the Life of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, →ISBN

   I can't think of any plausible harm you can do. And I know you're not a ratfuck just for the sake of being a ratfuck.

   2013, Matthew Stover, Caine's Law, →ISBN

3. slangvulgarAn act of sabotage or dirty tricks.

   The REDMAP ratfuck was done in such plain sight that Karl Rove himself announced it on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal.

   2016, David Daley, Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count, →ISBN

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   The Humphrey campaign had been able to undo a ratfuck at the last minute by getting a notice into the Saturday Milwaukee Sentinel saying there would be no free lunch that afternoon with the candidate and Lorne Green of Bonanza, as advertised in a flyer circulated in the ghetto.

   2010, Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, →ISBN

4. slangvulgarA violent or disastrous situation.

   Whoever checked them out in a bomber ought to have his head examined. What a ratfuck!

   2004, A. J. Liebling, Mollie and Other War Pieces, →ISBN, page 151

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   The Lord knew, he'd always tried to do his job; but it was hard to see what good he was doing there, or what good he or anybody else could do in a ratfuck like Plattner's World was turning into

   2002, David Drake, Paying the Piper, →ISBN

   So the LOJ turned out to be a ratfuck, working with a bunch of clueless turkeys playing stupid games.

   2003, Shelly Waxman, James Nathan Post, J. D. Post, Piranhas on the Loose, →ISBN, page 29

   This was going to be a ratfuck, and the campaign that followed was going to be a bigger ratfuck... but that's what wars were, individual ratfucks multiplied by the number of combatants.

   2013, David Drake, Northworld Trilogy, →ISBN

5. slangvulgarAn overcrowded party.

   "Were you girls at the lunch?" my father asked. "What a ratfuck, huh?"

   2012, Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep, →ISBN, page 239

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   That was the first thing Leland had ever said to her the first time she met him, at one of those Hollywood Hills ratfucks Lucy had dragged her to.

   2005, Carrie Fisher, The Best Awful: A Novel - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 7

6. slangvulgarSomething of no value.

   “I don't give a ratfuck,” he said.

   2016, Thom Jones, The Pugilist at Rest: Stories, →ISBN