RATTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ratting mean? 

• RATTING (noun)
  The noun RATTING has 1 sense:

1. to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors)

  Familiarity information: RATTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RATTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

informing; ratting

Hypernyms ("ratting" is a kind of...):

disclosure; revealing; revelation (the speech act of making something evident)

Derivation:

rat (give away information about somebody)