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Meanings of wharf rat in English
The common rat, Rattus norvegicus, often used as an experimental organism.
Usage of wharf rat in English
1
How would you know what a wharf rat looks like?
2
I told you, I wasn't wearing my spectacles and he looked just like a wharf rat runnin' through the kitchen.
3
He couldn't tell the world that Mr. Wharf Rat was a thief.
4
Sometimes these wharf rats are captured in the act, when fierce fights ensue.
5
The Hannah was a river boat and not a dive for wharf rats.
6
Up ahead, a few old wharf rats were playing pinochle on a bench.
7
The soldiers called them " wharf rats," "sailors," "longshoremen," "cutthroats," and "gutter snipes."
8
He is sometimes called the Norway Rat and sometimes the Wharf Rat and House Rat.
9
He's worth half a dozen of these wharf rats.
10
W'en we drop anchor, dere was some o' da meanes' lookin' wharf rats I evah see.
11
Children scampered to and fro like wharf rats.
12
I realize now that in those moments as we scurried aboard like wharf rats, we took wild chances.
13
Two unusually big cats and two dogs all bound to kill rats were fighting these fierce wharf rats.
14
Nearly two thirds of the boys have been boot-blacks, the remainder mostly what are technically known as ' wharf rats.'
15
I wouldn't ask for anything better than a turn with these wharf rats if it weren't for the ladies.
16
One doesn't expect to be driven from his ship by wharf rats, no matter how numerous they may be.