![]() These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'rat.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023 So far the scientists have experimented with their device only on mice and rats. Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 19 July 2023 But in some parts of North America bears are getting to be as common as squirrels in Central Park, if not quite so innumerable as rats in Brooklyn. Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2023 The final scene in the movie shows the doctor injecting the man's blood into a rat. Clio Chang, Curbed, 25 July 2023 And he’s been told that solar farms would be overrun by rats that would torment neighbors. Madeleine Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 27 July 2023 There are other metals, like arsenic, which could come from old rat poison. Daniel Rodgers, Glamour, 28 July 2023 But by 2019 rat sightings were already back up, and recently rats have reentered the mayoral agenda. Popularized by, and perhaps coined by, U.S. 2023 There were chicks, piglets, and rats at Christopher Kane frogs at JW Anderson ducks at Burberry and S.S. (n.) also ratfink, 1963, teen slang, see rat (n.) + fink (n.). Roth was a key figure in Southern California 's Kustom Kulture and hot rod movement of the late 1950s and 1960s. I'll bet Donald Trump wishes he had thought of that one.Noun If rats don’t think twice before stealing a slice of pizza and escaping across the subway platform, Kolade asks, why should Rat Girls? - Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 4 Aug. Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth (Ma April 4, 2001) was an American artist, cartoonist, illustrator, pinstriper and custom car designer and builder who created the hot rod icon Rat Fink and other characters. ![]() Roth’s lucrative idea to paint hideous monsters - including the Rat Fink of the title - on children’s T-shirts, a sartorial trend that, in the 1960s, had the added benefit of getting their wearers banned from school, thus giving them more time to play with Mr. Jeannette Catsoulis reviewed in The New York Times: Ogling fins and drooling over fenders, the movie traces the colorful history of the hot rod from speed machine to babe magnet and, finally, museum piece and collector’s item. ![]() Rat Fink and Roth are featured in Ron Mann's documentary film Tales of the Rat Fink (2006). Sloane and Steve Fiorilla, who illustrated Roth's catalogs. Other artists associated with Roth also drew the character, including Rat Fink Comix artist R.K. Rat Fink is green, depraved-looking with bulging, bloodshot eyes, an oversize mouth with yellowed, narrow teeth, and a red T-shirt with yellow "R.F." on it. Rat Fink continues to be a popular item to this day in Hot Rod and Kustom Culture circles in the form of t-shirts, key chains, wallets, toys, decals, etc. The initial run of the kit was from 1963 to 1965, but the Rat Fink kit along with Roth’s other creations have been re-issued by Revell over the years. Also in 1963 the Revell Model Company issued a plastic model kit of the character. The ad called it “The rage in California”. To withhold promised support or participation: They said they'd help us, but then finked out. ![]() Rat Fink was advertised for the first time in the July 1963 issue of Car Craft. someone who tells secret and damaging information about someone else, or an unpleasant person: Kelly's such a fink - she told Mom I was smoking again. By the August 1959 issue of Car Craft "Weirdo shirts" had become a full blown craze with Ed Roth at the forefront of the movement. Roth began airbrushing and selling "Weirdo" t-shirts at Car Shows and in the pages of Hot Rod publications such as Car Craft in the late 1950s. ratfink ( rtfk) n slang chiefly US and Canadian a contemptible or undesirable person C20: from rat + fink Collins English Dictionary Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 fink (fk) Slang. After he placed Rat Fink on an airbrushed monster shirt, the character soon came to symbolize the entire Hot Rod/Kustom Kulture scene of the 1950s and 1960s. Roth conceived Rat Fink as an anti-hero answer to Mickey Mouse. Rat Fink is one of the several hot-rod characters created by one of the originators of Kustom Kulture, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. Rat Fink by Steve Fiorilla for an Ed Roth catalog cover
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