sewer rat

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Noun1.sewer rat - brown rat commonly found in sewerssewer rat - brown rat commonly found in sewers  
brown rat, Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus - common domestic rat; serious pest worldwide
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"I remember one obstacle in particular called the sewer rat, where you went down this muddy sewer pipe and when you came out the other end, you went into a big pool of muddy water.
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"For many years I have thought he (Diouf) was the gutter type - I was going to call him a sewer rat but that might be insulting to sewer rats.
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With contempt in her eyes, Mrs Shaw described Wilcocks as a "sewer rat" and claimed Kelsey had suffered at his hands before.
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As the leather-jacketed sewer rat continues to hole himself up at No 23, Dot is on hand to bring him supplies, but it's not just a couple of peanut butter sarnies and a flask of Nescafe that Nick's after.
Nick's in a fix Nick's in a fix; Ronnie could be brain damaged and Nasty Nick sends mum Dot out to buy him drugs
One day, however, he is remorselessly flushed down the toilet by Syd, a common sewer rat. He finds himself in the sewer world of Ratropolis, where he meets the rodenthating Toad and his faithful thugs Spike and Whitey.
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This week, the evil, oversized sewer rat crawls back to Walford just in time for Halloween.
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Remy the sewer rat is the eponymous character of this piquant fairytale which aims to prove the simple theory that 'anyone can cook'.
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My suspicion is that the increasingly early sexualisation of our young women is actually a disadvantage in dealing with the occasional sexual sewer rat.
He was a rat..I was young, naive, and I didn't tell a soul
The truth is, the sort of taxavoidance scheme exploited by the extravagantly unfunny Mr Carr has to be sought out like a sewer rat seeks scraps of food amid the fetid effluence.
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The Senegal striker responded to QPR manager Warnock likening Diouf to a "sewer rat" after accusing the Blackburn Rovers striker of taunting his injured forward Jamie Mackie during the sides' FA Cup third-round meeting in predictable style.
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