Ratfuck
noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Someone who engages in dirty tricks. slang, vulgar
"“I want the ratfucks who did this,” Sula said."
- 2 Someone despicable. broadly, slang, vulgar
"You ratfuck. You ratfuck! You gotta say something!"
- 3 An act of sabotage or dirty tricks. slang, vulgar
"The Humphrey campaign had been able to undo a ratfuck at the last minute by getting a notice into the Saturday Milwaukee Sentinel saying there would be no free lunch that afternoon with the candidate and Lorne Green of Bonanza, as advertised in a flyer circulated in the ghetto."
- 4 A violent or disastrous situation. slang, vulgar
"The Lord knew, he'd always tried to do his job; but it was hard to see what good he was doing there, or what good he or anybody else could do in a ratfuck like Plattner's World was turning into"
- 5 An overcrowded party. slang, vulgar
"That was the first thing Leland had ever said to her the first time she met him, at one of those Hollywood Hills ratfucks Lucy had dragged her to."
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- 6 Something of no value. slang, vulgar
"“I don't give a ratfuck,” he said."
- 1 To steal or disorganize items that do not belong to one. intransitive, slang, transitive, vulgar
"“In my brief absence they ratfucked my bag and distributed the contents among themselves.”"
- 2 To sabotage; to fight dirty against or betray and cause disarray among. slang, vulgar
"“Unless what's happening here is that we're getting ratfucked ourselves.”"
- 3 To interfere in an election. slang, vulgar
Example
More examples"“In my brief absence they ratfucked my bag and distributed the contents among themselves.”"
Etymology
From rat + fuck. Metaphorical use arose c. 1950 in the United States, likely from college slang; see Wikipedia.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.