ratfuck

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English

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Etymology

rat +‎ fuck.

Verb

ratfuck (third-person singular simple present ratfucks, present participle ratfucking, simple past and past participle ratfucked)

  1. (vulgar, transitive, intransitive) To steal or disorganize items that do not belong to one.
    • 2007, Marcus Eriksen, My River Home: A Journey from the Gulf War to the Gulf of Mexico, →ISBN:
      “In my brief absence they ratfucked my bag and distributed the contents among themselves.”
    • 2010, Paul Thomas, The Ihaka Trilogy, The Ihaka Trilogy page 349:
      “If I was in your shoes pal, getting ratfucked would be the least of my worries.”
    • 2011, Evan Wright, Generation Kill, →ISBN, page 410:
      “I follow along with several on a mission to ratfuck the main office tower.”
  2. (vulgar) To sabotage; to fight dirty against or betray and cause disarray among.
    • 1990, Mick Farren, Mars: The Red Planet, →ISBN, page 136:
      “Unless what's happening here is that we're getting ratfucked ourselves.”
    • 2007, Larry Jackson Kolb, America at Night:
      “Rove had been ratfucking for Republicans ever since.”
    • 2010, Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, →ISBN:
      “Ratfucking took money—and drained money away from throwing a proper national party convention.”
  3. (vulgar, politics) To interfere in an election.

Derived terms

Noun

ratfuck (plural ratfucks)

  1. (vulgar) Someone who engages in dirty tricks.
    • 2015, Walter Jon Williams, Conventions of War (Dread Empire's Fall Series): Dread Empire's Fall 3‎:
      “I want the ratfucks who did this,” Sula said.
  2. (vulgar, more generally) Someone despicable.
    • 2012, Robert Anasi, The Last Bohemia: Scenes from the Life of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, →ISBN:
      You ratfuck. You ratfuck! You gotta say something!
    • 2013, Matthew Stover, Caine's Law, →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.
    • 2014, George R. R. Martin, Wild Cards III: Jokers Wild, →ISBN:
      Yeah. Okay. I want the little ratfuck dead.
  3. (vulgar) An act of sabotage or dirty tricks.
    • 2010, Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2016, David Daley, Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count, →ISBN:
      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.
  4. (vulgar) A violent or disastrous situation.
    • 2002, David Drake, Paying the Piper, →ISBN:
      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
    • 2004, A. J. Liebling, Mollie and Other War Pieces, →ISBN, page 151:
      Whoever checked them out in a bomber ought to have his head examined. What a ratfuck!
    • 2003, Shelly Waxman, James Nathan Post, J. D. Post, Piranhas on the Loose, →ISBN, page 29:
      So the LOJ turned out to be a ratfuck, working with a bunch of clueless turkeys playing stupid games.
    • 2013, David Drake, Northworld Trilogy, →ISBN:
      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.
  5. (vulgar) An overcrowded party.
    • 2005, Carrie Fisher, The Best Awful: A Novel - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 7:
      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.
    • 2012, Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep, →ISBN, page 239:
      "Were you girls at the lunch?" my father asked. "What a ratfuck, huh?"
  6. (vulgar) Something of no value.
    • 2016, Thom Jones, The Pugilist at Rest: Stories, →ISBN:
      “I don't give a ratfuck,” he said.

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