ratfucker

English

Alternative forms

• rat-fucker
• rat fucker

Etymology

From rat +‎ fucker or ratfuck +‎ -er.

Noun

ratfucker (plural ratfuckers)

1. (slang, derogatory, offensive, vulgar) Term of abuse.
   • 2014, John Sandford, Deadline, →ISBN:

     "You were stealing from stealing from the kids, you miserable ratfucker,” said Shrake, who was putting on the cuffs. “Excuse me—I mean, you miserable ratfucker, sir.”

   • 2015, Lauren Dane, At Blade's Edge, →ISBN:

     He was in there, that little ratfucker.

2. (vulgar, US) Someone who engages in sabotage and dirty tricks, especially one involved in the Watergate scandal.
   • 2007, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, All the President's Men, →ISBN, page 129:

     For the first time, he considered the possibility that the President of the United States was the head ratfucker.

   • 2008, Larry J. Kolb, America at Night, →ISBN:

     The Republican operatives called their sabotage operations ratfucking, and the chief ratfucker was one Donald Segretti.

   • 2008, Sidney Blumenthal, The Strange Death of Republican America, →ISBN:

     The FBI questioned Rove, but dropped its investigation of the small fry. Yet he would become the greatest ratfucker of them all.