Definition of Desert Rat in US English:
Desert Rat
nounˈdɛzərt ˌrætˈdezərt ˌrat
informal A soldier of the 7th British armored division in the North African desert campaign of 1941–2. The badge of the division was the figure of a jerboa (a desert-dwelling rodent).
Example sentencesExamples
- He was a Desert Rat in World War II and various anecdotes are made about this throughout the show, such as his life being saved by a mess-tin and saving a man's life with a tablespoon.
- The former desert rat was being forced to give up his home help support after the weekly cost more than trebled.
- It is interesting to note that we are about to celebrate the end of the war in 1945 in which our member spent five years as a desert rat defending democracy, only to be troubled by louts at the age of 83.
- He was a desert rat with the 8th Army in North Africa and then a Chindit behind Japanese lines in Burma.
- He was a Desert Rat and often spoke of his experiences in the desert and at Mont Cassino.