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A rat is a rodent of the genus Rattus.

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) (active 1987–1995), stage name of guitarist Gareth Pring
• 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, in networking
• RATS (software), a statistical software package for time series analysis
• Remote access trojan, malware

Aviation

• Ram air temperature, in aircraft
• Ram air turbine, in aircraft
• Rock Abrasion Tool, a NASA Mars Exploration Rover component
• CL-70 RAT (Remote Articulated Track), a Canadair vehicle
• Rocket Assisted Torpedo, later named RUR-5 ASROC

Others

• De Rat, IJlst, a windmill in the Netherlands
• Rapid antigen test, a kind of medical diagnostic

Arts and entertainment

Characters

• Rat (Pearls Before Swine), a comic strip character
• Rat Rathbone, in Robert Muchamore's CHERUB spy novel series
• Theodore Donald "Rat" Finch, a computer hacker in the 2003 film The Core
• Rat, one of the main characters from Kenneth Grahame's novel The Wind in the Willows, voiced by Peter Sallis in the 1984-1990 series

Films

• Rat (film), a 2000 Irish comedy
• Rats (2016 film), an American documentary horror film
• Rats! (film), a 2024 American independent comedy
• Rats, a 2013 short film starring Romaine Waite
• Rat, a 1998 documentary by Mark Lewis
• Rats: Night of Terror, a 1984 Italian film

Music

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

Other

• Rats (advertisement), a 2000 political ad
• "Rat" (short story), by James Patrick Kelly
• "Rats" (short story), by M. R. James
• "Rats", an episode of The Protector
• Rats!, a 1998 2D platform video game

Other uses

• Rat (zodiac), a Chinese zodiac sign
• Rat or shoulder tender, a cut of beef
• Rat, slang for an informant, or to inform
• Rat, a device for forming a hair bun
• Pro Co RAT, a guitar distortion pedal
• Rat (newspaper), a New York City underground newspaper
• The Remote Associates Test of creativity potential
• Rat, a colloquial name for muskrat

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)
• Tunnel Rat (G.I. Joe), a fictional character