Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The ordinary gray or brown Norway rat, Mus decumanus: so called as living in sewers.
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Examples
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Jack played the game according to corporate dictate, with the steel-plate facade and sewer-rat ethics big business demands.
Winter Hawk Jack 2010
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I read about the verbal pasting Gwyneth gave that horrid sewer-rat Blears over her decision to split my county of Cheshire into two councils against all reason.
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In choosing to live in a manner that would cause a punk sewer-rat to raise a dubious eyebrow,
Gridlock Elton, Ben 1991
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I once mentioned a little saweiety sheet, published in New York, under the title of Town Topics, because it afforded me a kind of languid pleasure to kick the feculent sewer-rat back into the foul cloaca from which it had crawled to beslime the ICONOCLAST.
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A peculiar species is found in the blood of the common frog, and another in that of the sewer-rat.
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Death on two legs Tearing me apart Death on two legs You've never had a heart of your own (You never did, right from the start) Insane, you should be put inside You're a sewer-rat decaying in a cesspool of pride Should be made unemployed Make yourself null-and-void Make me feel good I feel good TESTO TRADOTTO Non disponibile Drag to Playlist
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Death on two legs Tearing me apart Death on two legs You've never had a heart of your own (You never did, right from the start) Insane, you should be put inside You're a sewer-rat decaying in a cesspool of pride Should be made unemployed Make yourself null-and-void Make me feel good I feel good TESTO TRADOTTO Non disponibile
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Death on two legs Tearing me apart Death on two legs You've never had a heart of your own (You never did, right from the start) Insane, you should be put inside You're a sewer-rat decaying in a cesspool of pride Should be made unemployed Make yourself null-and-void Make me feel good I feel good TESTO TRADOTTO Non disponibile Drag to Playlist
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Death on two legs Tearing me apart Death on two legs You've never had a heart of your own (You never did, right from the start) Insane, you should be put inside You're a sewer-rat decaying in a cesspool of pride Should be made unemployed Make yourself null-and-void Make me feel good I feel good TESTO TRADOTTO Non disponibile
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