Usually means: Person or animal thriving aridly.
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  1. desert rat: Merriam-Webster
  2. desert rat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. desert rat: Collins English Dictionary
  4. desert rat: Vocabulary.com
  5. desert rat: Wiktionary
  6. desert rat: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. desert rat: Dictionary.com
  8. Desert rat (disambiguation), Desert rat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. desert rat: Rhymezone
  10. desert rat: FreeDictionary.org
  11. desert rat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. desert rat: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. desert rat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. desert rat: Encyclopedia

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  1. desert rat: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (desert rat)

noun:  One of various mouselike rodents species inhabiting deserts:
noun:  A gerbil (subfamily Gerbillinae) of the deserts of Africa and Asia
noun:  A kangaroo rat (genus Dipodomys) from North America
noun:  A Natal multimammate mouse (Mastomys natalensis) from Africa
noun:  A jerboa, including those of species Jaculus orientalis and Jaculus jaculus (lesser Egyptian jerboa), which inhabit the desert regions of North Africa.
noun:  A British or Australian soldier who served in North Africa with the British 7th Armoured Division in 1941-42.

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