ratty

IPA: rˈæti

Synonym of knock down ginger (“prank of knocking on a front door and running away”)

Resembling or characteristic of a rat; ratlike.
Infested with rats.
(figuratively, informal)
In poor condition or repair.
(Australia) Crazy, mad; ridiculous; slightly strange, eccentric; also (followed by about, on, or over), attracted to, infatuated with.
(originally Britain) Annoyed, bad-tempered, irritable.

Examples of "ratty" in Sentences

He was dressed in ratty jeans and an old green field jacket.
Cages holding lumps in ratty jackets lined the opposite wall.
Used and ratty is fine as I am not going to use it for pasta.
But if you are in ratty jeans, and your hair is a mess, you might take it as an insult.
He admits it looks "ratty" - but that has only happened because he has always been so proud of it, and what it represents, that he has worn it into the ground.
Madhani had traveled extensively through the dangers of Iraq — unarmed, unguarded, in ratty old cars — and he knew that many apparently random attacks had hidden histories behind them.
That means that a lot of nerds are struggling for their next paycheck, living in ratty apartments and working in crappy jobs, and they don’t even realize that the reason they’re poor is because people find them offputting.
Could you elaborate on the data processing aspects of the investigation analysis such as the geographic information system analysis of the debris and drilling down into the so called ratty data, and if you're going to build a database to help you analyze the evidence you're collecting?