Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

give a rat's ass

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.57 in modern English

Syllables: give a rat's ass
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

US standard spelling of give a rat's arse.

American usage

Example Sentences

"I suspect that cancer doesn't give a rat's ass whether you have a positive mental attitude. It just sits in there multiplying away, whether you are admirably stoic or weeping and wailing."
"Anderson also said he doesn't think "the NBA gives a rat's ass about Seattle," and he's upset with Howard Schultz for selling the team to Bennett."
""In the time it would take for this Russian's attack to work over your 512K DSL line (2.2 years, I heard?) we could completely secure the DNS or at least the parts of DNS whose operators gave a rat's ass about security," Vixie concluded."

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

gives a rat's ass (present, singular) giving a rat's ass (participle, present) gave a rat's ass (past) given a rat's ass (participle, past)

Questions

What does give a rat's ass mean?: US standard spelling of give a rat's arse.

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