rat on
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]rat on (third-person singular simple present rats on, present participle ratting on, simple past and past participle ratted on)
- (transitive) To tattle, squeal about (someone)
- 1984 May 23, Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Franco Arcalli, Franco Ferrini, Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in America, spoken by Beefy (Frank Gio), Regency Enterprises & The Ladd Company, distributed by Warner Bros. & Titanus:
- Who you protecting, you dumb asshole? A stoolie who rats on his own friends?
Synonyms
[edit]- tell on; See also Thesaurus:rat out