Meanings
plural ratfuckers · alternative rat-fucker · alternative rat fucker
- derogatoryoffensiveslangvulgarA term of abuse.
He was in there, that little ratfucker.
2015, Lauren Dane, At Blade's Edge, →ISBN1 more example
"You were stealing from stealing from the kids, you miserable ratfucker,” said Shrake, who was putting on the cuffs. “Excuse me—I mean, you miserable ratfucker, sir.”
2014, John Sandford, Deadline, →ISBN - USderogatoryslangvulgarSomeone who engages in sabotage and dirty tricks, especially one involved in the Watergate scandal.
For the first time, he considered the possibility that the President of the United States was the head ratfucker.
2007, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, All the President's Men, →ISBN, page 1292 more examples
The Republican operatives called their sabotage operations ratfucking, and the chief ratfucker was one Donald Segretti.
2008, Larry J. Kolb, America at Night, →ISBNThe FBI questioned Rove, but dropped its investigation of the small fry. Yet he would become the greatest ratfucker of them all.
2008, Sidney Blumenthal, The Strange Death of Republican America, →ISBN
Origin
From rat + fucker or ratfuck + -er.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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