LekhoriLekhoripresent participle and gerund of rat
Don't go ratting to the police about what happened.
The blood sport of setting a dog upon rats confined in a pit to see how many he will kill in a given time.
Henry Mayhew, the nineteenth-century chronicler of London's underworld, described the frenzied activity of one ratting contest. A terrier — the best of ratting dogs — was placed into a pit with 50 rats.
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A vocation involving the pest control of rats, typically using a working terrier.
Desertion of one's principles.