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Wharf rat

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A brown rat; especially, one that lives among wharves.
  2. 2
    brown rat that infests wharves wordnet
  3. 3
    A neglected boy who lives around the wharfs. slang
  4. 4
    someone who lives near wharves and lives by pilfering from ships or warehouses wordnet
  5. 5
    A man who hangs around a wharf in the hope of finding temporary work there. slang

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