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to rat out
01
to inform an authority about the wrongdoings or crimes of others
Dialect
American
American
Grammatical Information
Composition
phrasal
Action verb
Regular
Separable
Particle
out
Base verb
rat
Present tense
rat out
3rd person singular
rats out
Present participle
ratting out
Past simple
ratted out
Past participle
ratted out
Examples
He ratted out a pair of colleagues so he could stay out of jail.
