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wharf rat definition

wharf rat

  1. any of various rats found around wharves
  2. a vagrant or petty criminal who haunts wharves

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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