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I had to look this up — I've never heard it used in Britain.

> Ratfucking is an American slang term for behind the scenes (covert) political sabotage or dirty tricks, particularly pertaining to elections

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfucking

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Interesting. In the (US) military, we used this term to describe someone who breaks into the MRE stash and steals all the good stuff, leaving horrid creations like cheese and veggie omelette.

“Private Johnson got caught ratfucking the MREs while everyone was doing PT” etc etc

I've always used it as a variant of chicken fucker

Whoa, I had no idea it was an actual term that’s applicable here. I thought the author was just creatively insulting the guy.

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