'Ratting' definitions:

Definition of 'ratting'

From: WordNet
noun
To furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors) [syn: informing, ratting]

Definition of 'Ratting'

From: GCIDE
  • Rat \Rat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ratted; p. pr. & vb. n. Ratting.]
  • 1. In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union. [1913 Webster]
  • Coleridge . . . incurred the reproach of having ratted, solely by his inability to follow the friends of his early days. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To catch or kill rats. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To be an informer (against an associate); to inform (on an associate); to squeal; -- used commonly in the phrase to rat on. [PJC]

Definition of 'Ratting'

From: GCIDE
  • Ratting \Rat"ting\ (r[a^]t"t[i^]ng), n.
  • 1. The conduct or practices of one who rats. See Rat, v. i., 1. --Sydney Smith. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The low sport of setting a dog upon rats confined in a pit to see how many he will kill in a given time. [1913 Webster]

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