rat-race

See also: rat race

English

Verb

rat-race (third-person singular simple present rat-races, present participle rat-racing, simple past and past participle rat-raced)

  1. (slang, transitive, intransitive) To rat run, that is, to drive on side streets, often at high speeds, to avoid traffic.

Noun

rat-race (plural rat-races)

  1. Alternative form of rat race
    • 1939, Christopher Morley, chapter 26, in Kitty Foyle, page 261:
      Their own private life gets to be a rat-race.

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