Rat (disambiguation) explained

A rat is a rodent of the genus Rattus. Colloquially, rat may refer to a muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus), a medium-sized semiaquatic rodent native to North America.

Rat, RAT, or Rats may also refer to:

Places

Rat, Novi Travnik, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Rat, Missouri, an unincorporated community
Rat Island (disambiguation)
Rat Islands, Alaska, United States
Rat Lake (Aitkin County, Minnesota), United States
Rat Lake (Cottonwood County, Minnesota), United States
Rat Portage, the former name of Kenora, Ontario, Canada
Rat River (disambiguation)

People

Rat (Ned's Atomic Dustbin), a band member of Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Rats (footballer) (born 1977), nickname of former Angolan footballer Ambrósio Pascoal
Blek le Rat (born 1952), French graffiti artist
Răzvan Raț (born 1981), Romanian footballer
Vasiliy Rats (born 1961), Ukrainian footballer

Technology

Computing

Radio access technology
RATS (software), regression analysis of time series
Remote access trojan, malware

Other

De Rat, IJlst, a windmill
Ram air temperature
Ram air turbine
Rock Abrasion Tool, on Mars rovers
CL-70 RAT (Remote Articulated Track), Canadair vehicle
Rocket Assisted Torpedo, later named RUR-5 ASROC
Rapid antigen test, RAT

Arts and entertainment

Characters

Rat (Pearls Before Swine), in comic strip
Rat Rathbone, in Robert Muchamore's CHERUB series
Theodore Donald "Rat" Finch, computer hacker in The Core
Tunnel Rat (G.I. Joe)

Films

Rat (film), a 2000 Irish film
Rats (2013 short film), a 2013 short film starring Romaine Waite
Rats (2016 film), a 2016 American documentary horror film
Rat, a 1998 documentary by Mark Lewis
, a 1984 Italian film

Music

Rats (album), 1994, by Sass Jordan
"Rats" (Pearl Jam song), from 1993 album Vs.
"Rats" (The Kinks song), 1970
"Rats", a song from the album Not Accepted Anywhere by The Automatics
"Rats" (Ghost song), 2018

Other

"Rat" (short story), by James Patrick Kelly
"Rats", an episode of The Protector
Rats!, a 1998 2D platform video game

Other uses

Rat (zodiac), sign of the Chinese zodiac
Rat or shoulder tender, a cut of beef
Rat, slang for what an informant does
Rat, a device for forming a hair bun
Pro Co RAT, a guitar distortion pedal
Rat (newspaper), New York City, US
Remote Associates Test of creativity potential

See also