RATTING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

To furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors)

Synonyms:

informing; ratting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("ratting" is a kind of...):

disclosure; revealing; revelation (the speech act of making something evident)

Derivation:

rat (give away information about somebody)

-ing form of the verb rat