Definition of sewer rat in US English:
sewer rat
nounˈsuər ˌrætˈso͞oər ˌrat
another term for brown rat
Example sentencesExamples
- Animal activists also found caged birds including parrots, pigeons and crows in the apartment as well as a sewer rat, a hedgehog and piles of food and animal feces.
- It's possibly a little more entertaining than it is informative, but it's a good read - just don't read the bit about treading on sewer rats after you've had something to eat.
- Selina and Bort quickly slipped into the darkness, followed closely by a large sewer rat.
- Huge rats the size of Chicago sewer rats had thrived in this hole.
- I won't demean myself to eating from dumpsters, not yet, because then I would be at the level of sewer rats.
- Inside his Manhattan brownstone lurks something even more terrifying than his business associates: a giant sewer rat.
- ‘We'll be here to pull you out if the sewer rats try to eat you,’ said Andrea in her trademark monotone.
- The boy's speciality was dispatching sewer rats that got in the way.
- You two can go get eaten by sewer rats if you please.
- These weren't sewer rats, but rats of a rather more refined breed.
- They are considered about the same quality of being as sewer rats by the tribal allegiances which run way back through their history.
- She shifted her glance, and watched a crow peck at a dead sewer rat.
- She killed and injured countless sewer rats, hissing madly.