Brooklyn Nine-Nine · 第 1 季
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rat

/rˈæt/A1

告密 / 出賣 (v.)

俚語用法。名詞是老鼠,動詞 `rat out` 指「告發、出賣(同夥)」,是街頭和犯罪題材裡的高頻黑話。

Now I gotta go into an interrogation with no evidence
and try to get Jacoby to rat out his distributors!
I'm sorry, I got jumpy.
rat — Brooklyn Nine-Nine S01E14 · ReelWord