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ratfuck

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From rat + fuck. Metaphorical use arose c. 1950 in the United States, likely from college slang; see Wikipedia.

verb ratfucks · ratfucking · ratfucked · rat-fuck · rat fuck

  1. intransitive, slang, transitive, vulgar To steal or disorganize items that do not belong to one. “In my brief absence they ratfucked my bag and distributed the contents among themselves.”
  2. slang, vulgar To sabotage; to fight dirty against or betray and cause disarray among. “Unless what's happening here is that we're getting ratfucked ourselves.”
  3. slang, vulgar To interfere in an election.

noun ratfucks · rat-fuck · rat fuck

  1. slang, vulgar Someone who engages in dirty tricks. “I want the ratfucks who did this,” Sula said.
  2. broadly, slang, vulgar Someone despicable. You ratfuck. You ratfuck! You gotta say something!
  3. slang, vulgar An act of sabotage or dirty tricks. 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.
  4. slang, vulgar A violent or disastrous situation. 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
  5. slang, vulgar An overcrowded party. 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.
  6. slang, vulgar Something of no value. “I don't give a ratfuck,” he said.

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"ratfuck." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ratfuck. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{ratfuck_2026,
  title = {ratfuck},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ratfuck},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}