Citations:rat-licker

English citations of rat-licker

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• 2020 July 11, Mark Grimes (@markgrimes), Twitter‎^[1]:

  Fuck the bubonic plague rat lickers of 1347. Of yeah, that wasn’t a thing. Wear your masks assholes.

• 2020 August 17, Nikolai Kingsley, “Re: Find the edge of the 5km quarantine limit and stand on it”, in talk.bizarre‎^[2] (Usenet):

  > I'm the kind of person who prefers to stay indoors.
  good to know you ain't no rat-licker: [link to the Urban Dictionary entry of “rat-licker”]

• 2020 September 9, “Editorial: Rat-lickers and Covidiots defy Covid 19 coronavirus caution”, in The New Zealand Herald‎^[3], page A26:

  One of the newer and more colourful terms is “rat-licker” — slang for someone who would wilfully or carelessly catch or spread disease.

• 2020 December 24, boots, “Re: OT: Brexit”, in uk.rec.motorcycles‎^[4] (Usenet):

  That is pretty good, saw it before the present plague as is this [link to the BBC programme Contagion: The BBC Four Pandemic] if you can find it made in 2018. Prescient in many ways although they 'wrongly' assume the population wouldn't be a bunch of rat lickers.

• 2020 December 25, “The Luv Doc: An Established Tradition: It's really hard to stab someone to death with an icicle”, in The Austin Chronicle‎^[5]:

  I think the solution to your dilemma is obvious. You need to go swap some hot, dank, virus-heavy air with an overly clingy group of rat lickers.

• 2021 January 20, R. Starnes, “A lack of face coverings contributes to county's COVID death rate”, in The Daily Courier:

  I would have used all caps and said something like, " The RAT LICKERS in this country refuse to follow science, following closely the right wing freedom rhetoric that they hear and blindly accept."

• 2021 July 25, “Time to jab anti-vaxxers mass rallies”, in Sunday Mirror, London, page 12:

  Less open-minded critics branded it a “rat licker rally” warning others to beware of the “tin foil hat brigade”. Meanwhile, the protesters themselves disputed whether they were demonstrating against the vaccine passport or the vaccine itself.

• 2022 February 21, Ray (@Warzoid), Twitter‎^[6]:

  Be interesting to see how many people go out less & spend less money once they know every shop, bus, train and bar is full of covid-riddled rat-lickers.

• 2023 January 11, Neil Bower (@NeilBower9), Twitter‎^[7]:

  a friend of mine has had covid four times, can any of the rat-lickers out there explain to him and me why he hasn't built up any immunity to it yet?

• 2023 April 15, Heptaglemious (@heptaglemious), Twitter‎^[8]:

  I work for a hospital. I know people who have had it multiple times. There are too many rat lickers coming in with severe disease.