rat-racev.

Brit.

/ˈratreɪs/, U.S.

/ˈrætˌreɪs/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rat race n.

Etymology: < rat race n. Compare earlier rat racing n.

Chiefly U.S.

intransitive. To take part in a rat race (in various senses); spec. to move at high speed. Also occasionally transitive.In earliest use (quot. 1937): to dance (cf. rat race n. 2b).

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > compete or rival [verb (intransitive)] > fiercely or ruthlessly

rat-race1968

society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > compete with [verb (transitive)] > fiercely or ruthlessly

rat-race1968

1937 Clarionette (Univ. Denver) 18 Mar. (St. Patrick ed.) 1/3 If you're off for a little body-swaying to music, you are..‘rat-racing’.

a1944 B. Stiles Serenade to Big Bird (1947) 68 Some 51s were rat-racing around at eleven o'clock high.

1958 T. H. White Mountain Road 24 These roads are already lousy with refugees and if we waste even another day, with Liuchow gone, they'll be rat-racing all the way up to Kweiyang.

1968 Guardian 5 Oct. 6/5 Literary people in this country seem to have been..rat-racing each other to the nearest vacant editor's chair.

1968 New Scientist 21 Nov. 418/3 Looking into an aquarium..is just the medicine for a chap who has spent all day rat-racing against a computer.

2007 Macarthur (Austral.) Chron. (Nexis) 20 Feb. 1 People are rat racing through Ingleburn to avoid the traffic and this a Federal highway.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rat-race
释义	rat-racev. Brit. /ˈratreɪs/, U.S. /ˈrætˌreɪs/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rat race n. Etymology: < rat race n. Compare earlier rat racing n. Chiefly U.S. intransitive. To take part in a rat race (in various senses); spec. to move at high speed. Also occasionally transitive.In earliest use (quot. 1937): to dance (cf. rat race n. 2b). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > compete or rival [verb (intransitive)] > fiercely or ruthlessly rat-race1968 society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > compete with [verb (transitive)] > fiercely or ruthlessly rat-race1968 1937 Clarionette (Univ. Denver) 18 Mar. (St. Patrick ed.) 1/3 If you're off for a little body-swaying to music, you are..‘rat-racing’. a1944 B. Stiles Serenade to Big Bird (1947) 68 Some 51s were rat-racing around at eleven o'clock high. 1958 T. H. White Mountain Road 24 These roads are already lousy with refugees and if we waste even another day, with Liuchow gone, they'll be rat-racing all the way up to Kweiyang. 1968 Guardian 5 Oct. 6/5 Literary people in this country seem to have been..rat-racing each other to the nearest vacant editor's chair. 1968 New Scientist 21 Nov. 418/3 Looking into an aquarium..is just the medicine for a chap who has spent all day rat-racing against a computer. 2007 Macarthur (Austral.) Chron. (Nexis) 20 Feb. 1 People are rat racing through Ingleburn to avoid the traffic and this a Federal highway. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1937
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