rat tamer

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noun

Australian informal a psychologist or psychiatrist

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Words nearby rat tamer

rattail, rat-tail cactus, rattail comb, rat-tailed maggot, rat-tail file, rat tamer, rattan, rat-tat, ratteen, ratter, rat terrier

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How to use rat tamer in a sentence

One rat had once fallen on his head, he said, during a rat raid of a local home.
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Since rat root comes from a plant that grows on the edge of the lake there are concerns that the plant is carrying toxins.
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Chief Adam offers us some of the local medicine called rat root.
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The episode includes satirical images of crime-ridden, rat-infested slums overrun by child-biting monkeys.
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A cabin filled with the Rat Pack and the ladies who loved them.
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Next morning Judy shouted that there was a rat in the nursery, and thus he forgot to tell her the wonderful news.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
He had repeated till he was thrice weary the statement that "the Cat lay on the Mat and the Rat came in."
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
Their conversation is certainly tamer and less piquant than that of the American or the French ladies.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
Growling horribly, the enraged brute seized poor Pearson and shook him as a terrier dog shakes a rat.
Hunting the Lions|R.M. Ballantyne
I was here a little while ago and nobody answered my knock, though I could hear that typewriter going rat, tat, tat all the time.
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