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RATTING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

informing; ratting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

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

Derivation:

rat (give away information about somebody)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb rat

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