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ratter


someone who enters your opal claim or mine to steal opal: It's that low life about to walk by. You mean he's a ratter.
Contributor's comments: from Lightning Ridge.

Contributor's comments: I first heard this term after arriving in Brisbane and being doorknocked by the Council rat catcher and his "ratters" ... a couple of very excited fox terriers.