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- noun Plural form of
rotter .
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Examples
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It's a zombie story as evidenced by the "rotters" that inhabit the walled-in city of Seattle.
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But let's not call men "rotters," 'cause, while we are standing pat,
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
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At the other or lower extreme, there are perhaps one-tenth who are so-called "rotters," the men who set the evil standards of the camp and whose conduct is almost altogether selfish and materialistic.
With Our Soldiers in France Sherwood Eddy 1917
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When Zeke Wilkes, Blue’s son, goes into the walled wreck of a city to clear his father’s name, Zeke’s mother, Briar Wilkes, follows him in an airship, determined to rescue her son from the toxic gas that turns people into zombies called rotters and described in gut-churning detail.
FTW! 2009
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When thrown into a holdout of die-hard defectors, a solitary Tit for Tat will do less well than defecting rotters, because it has to learn the hard way, always losing the first round, before switching into retaliatory mode.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Well my dear my chums “Biffy” and “Ginger” are into a bit of film making and they have lots of education between themselves, but why is beyond my the silly old rotters as just as stupid as “Biffo” Blodswort-Cumberpatch, he left school with only two CSE examinations …. something to do with having webbed feet I think, a little. .in breeding if you ask me.
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But the parade of reality rotters has him completely dumbfounded.
Ali MacLean: Why the Hell Are We Keeping Up With the Kardashians? 2010
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Casinos contain tuxedoed cads and rotters with slender mustaches, and ladies in sequined gowns that hug their behinds.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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Casinos contain tuxedoed cads and rotters with slender mustaches, and ladies in sequined gowns that hug their behinds.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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But the parade of reality rotters has him completely dumbfounded.
Ali MacLean: Why the Hell Are We Keeping Up With the Kardashians? 2010
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