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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
drat
interjection
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Drat! The car won't start!
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
drat

1815, disguised form of exclamation God rot (something or someone).

Wiktionary
drat

interj. A cry of anger or frustration vb. (context transitive English) To damn or curse.

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Drat

Drat may refer to:

  • A minced oath for " damn"
  • Drat! The Cat!, a 1965 Broadway musical
  • Distrito de Riego Arenal-Tempisque (DRAT), see Water resources management in Costa Rica
  • Deterministic Trim (DRAT), see Trim (computing)
  • Debts Recovery Appellate Tribunal (India)

Usage examples of "drat".

Did he (meaning himself, not Drat) have the courage, the power and integrity, the dedication of purpose, to cope with Carol if she had, as Drat declared, severe emotional problems?

I tried to cross the clean leg in front of it before he saw, but I could tell by the sweep of his eyebrow as it swooped up his forehead that he'd seen anyway, drat it all.

Drat had nothing by way of comment to that, Cadbury moodily walked the four miles back north to his current gnawing-assignment, a large poplar growing at the edge of Papermill Creek, and sank his teeth furiously into the base of the poplar, imagining to himself that the tree was a syzygy of Dr.