Crossword clues for desert rat
desert rat
Wiktionary
n. 1 One of various mouselike rodents species inhabiting deserts: 2 # A gerbil (''(taxlink Gerbillinae family)'') of the deserts of Africa and Asia 3 # A kangaroo rat (''Dipodomys'') from North America 4 # A Natal multimammate mouse ((taxlink Mastomys natalensis species)) from Africa 5 # A jerboa, including species such as (taxlink Jaculus orientalis species) and the lesser Egyptian jerboa, (taxlink Jaculus jaculus species), which inhabit the desert regions of North Africa. 6 A British or Australian soldier who served in North Africa with the British 7th Armoured Division in 1941-42.
WordNet
n. any of various leaping rodents of desert regions of North America and Mexico; largest members of the family Heteromyidae [syn: kangaroo rat, Dipodomys phillipsii]
Wikipedia
Desert Rat or desert rat or its plural may refer to:
- The Desert Rats, nickname for the British 7th Armoured Division and also the British 8th Army
- The Desert Rats, 1953 war film starring Richard Burton
- A common name for various groups of rodents:
- Gerbils (Gerbillinae) of the deserts of Africa and Asia
- Kangaroo rats (Dipodomys) from North America
- Natal Multimammate Mouse (Mastomys natalensis) from Africa
- Desert rat, colloquial name for a resident of a desert area, esp. in Southwestern United States deserts
- Desert Research and Technology Studies, or Desert RATS, a set of field trials conducted by NASA
- Desert Rat Scrap Book, a quarterly humor publication (1945-1967) based in California focusing on the American Southwest region, especially prospectors and other desert rats
- Desert Rats, a book by
Usage examples of "desert rat".
Flickinger seemed to be telling him that Project Mercury just wasn't suited for the righteous brethren of yore, the veterans of those high desert rat-shack broomstick days when there were no chiefs and no Indians and the pilot huddled in the hangar with the engineer and then went out and took the beast up and lit the candle and reached for the stars and rode his chimney and landed it on the lake bed and made it to Pancho's in time for beer call.
Pitt and Giordino looked at each other blankly, and then back at the old desert rat, certain their eyes and their minds had run amuck.
If by any chance Tommy's three friends from Santa Bonita, Roy, Spud and Doc, happened to be on that road hunting for K6ATX, the old desert rat would be able to tell them where he was.