Citations:rat-licker
English citations of rat-licker
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- 2020 August 17, Nikolai Kingsley, “Re: Find the edge of the 5km quarantine limit and stand on it”, in talk.bizarre[2] (Usenet):
- > I'm the kind of person who prefers to stay indoors.
good to know you ain't no rat-licker: [link to the Urban Dictionary entry of “rat-licker”]
- 2020 September 9, “Editorial: Rat-lickers and Covidiots defy Covid 19 coronavirus caution”, in The New Zealand Herald[3], page A26:
- One of the newer and more colourful terms is “rat-licker” — slang for someone who would wilfully or carelessly catch or spread disease.
- 2020 December 24, boots, “Re: OT: Brexit”, in uk.rec.motorcycles[4] (Usenet):
- That is pretty good, saw it before the present plague as is this [link to the BBC programme Contagion: The BBC Four Pandemic] if you can find it made in 2018. Prescient in many ways although they 'wrongly' assume the population wouldn't be a bunch of rat lickers.
- 2020 December 25, “The Luv Doc: An Established Tradition: It's really hard to stab someone to death with an icicle”, in The Austin Chronicle[5]:
- I think the solution to your dilemma is obvious. You need to go swap some hot, dank, virus-heavy air with an overly clingy group of rat lickers.
- 2021 January 20, R. Starnes, “A lack of face coverings contributes to county's COVID death rate”, in The Daily Courier:
- I would have used all caps and said something like, " The RAT LICKERS in this country refuse to follow science, following closely the right wing freedom rhetoric that they hear and blindly accept."
- 2021 July 25, “Time to jab anti-vaxxers mass rallies”, in Sunday Mirror, London, page 12:
- Less open-minded critics branded it a “rat licker rally” warning others to beware of the “tin foil hat brigade”. Meanwhile, the protesters themselves disputed whether they were demonstrating against the vaccine passport or the vaccine itself.