"rat on" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rats on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ratting on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ratted on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ratted on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "rat on (third-person singular simple present rats on, present participle ratting on, simple past and past participle ratted on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (on)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984 May 23, Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Franco Arcalli, Franco Ferrini, Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in America, spoken by Beefy (Frank Gio), Regency Enterprises & The Ladd Company, distributed by Warner Bros. & Titanus",
          "text": "Who you protecting, you dumb asshole? A stoolie who rats on his own friends?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To tattle, squeal about (someone)"
      ],
      "id": "en-rat_on-en-verb-h6Qth5Bw",
      "links": [
        [
          "tattle",
          "tattle"
        ],
        [
          "squeal",
          "squeal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To tattle, squeal about (someone)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "tell on"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rat on"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rats on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ratting on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ratted on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ratted on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "rat on (third-person singular simple present rats on, present participle ratting on, simple past and past participle ratted on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (on)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984 May 23, Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Franco Arcalli, Franco Ferrini, Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in America, spoken by Beefy (Frank Gio), Regency Enterprises & The Ladd Company, distributed by Warner Bros. & Titanus",
          "text": "Who you protecting, you dumb asshole? A stoolie who rats on his own friends?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To tattle, squeal about (someone)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tattle",
          "tattle"
        ],
        [
          "squeal",
          "squeal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To tattle, squeal about (someone)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "tell on"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rat on"
}