pocket rat

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   any of various rodents with cheek pouches

   Broaderrat

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Questions about pocket rat

What does pocket rat mean?

pocket rat means "any of various rodents with cheek pouches".

Is pocket rat a common word?

pocket rat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.