ratfucker

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English

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Etymology

From rat +‎ fucker or ratfuck +‎ -er.

Noun

ratfucker (plural ratfuckers)

  1. (slang, derogatory, offensive, vulgar) Term of abuse.
    • 2014, John Sandford, Deadline, →ISBN:
      "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.”
    • 2015, Lauren Dane, At Blade's Edge, →ISBN:
      He was in there, that little ratfucker.
  2. (vulgar, US) Someone who engages in sabotage and dirty tricks, especially one involved in the Watergate scandal.
    • 2007, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, All the President's Men, →ISBN, page 129:
      For the first time, he considered the possibility that the President of the United States was the head ratfucker.
    • 2008, Larry J. Kolb, America at Night, →ISBN:
      The Republican operatives called their sabotage operations ratfucking, and the chief ratfucker was one Donald Segretti.
    • 2008, Sidney Blumenthal, The Strange Death of Republican America, →ISBN:
      The FBI questioned Rove, but dropped its investigation of the small fry. Yet he would become the greatest ratfucker of them all.