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 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
- Rats: Night of Terror, 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
- All pages with titles beginning with Rat
- All pages with titles containing rats
- All pages with titles containing Rat
- The Rat (disambiguation)
- The Rats (disambiguation)
- Rât (disambiguation)
- RAT test (disambiguation)
- Raat (disambiguation)
- Ratt (disambiguation)
- RRAT, rotating radio transients
- Lab rat (disambiguation)