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See the full definition for ratchet in the English Language Learners Dictionary. Nglish: Translation of ratchet for Spanish Speakers. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Log in Sign Up. Save Word. Definition of ratchet Entry 1 of 2. Definition of ratchet Entry 2 of 2. Tobey, Forbes , 14 Sep.

Wu, The Atlantic , 21 July These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'ratchet. First Known Use of ratchet Noun , in the meaning defined at sense 1 Verb , in the meaning defined at transitive sense.

History and Etymology for ratchet Noun alteration of earlier rochet , from French, alteration of Middle French rocquet ratchet, bobbin, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German rocko distaff — more at rock. Learn More About ratchet. Brittney Cooper, a co-founder of the Crunk Feminist Collective.

And some of that particularity gets lost when it travels. In , Earl Williams, a producer known as Phunk Dawg, recorded a new version of the song, featuring the better-known Lil Boosie currently incarcerated , from Baton Rouge, as well as Mandigo and another Shreveport rapper named Untamed Mayne.

To be ghetto, real, gutter, nasty. I am what I am. When ratchet is used in hip hop, it can also mean cool, sloppy, sleek, or flashy. Though Ratchet and Clank first tried to get through to Fizzwidget, [21] it eventually became clear this was not feasible, Angela noticing something was off with him. After Ratchet and Clank defeated it , Angela freed the real Fizzwidget, who expressed his gratitude, and with Clank identifying the problem, amplified the fixed Helix-o-morph to cure the other Protopets.

Sometime between the events of Going Commando and Up Your Arsenal , Ratchet built a gravimetric warp drive out of blargian scrap metal, and did not test the device. At the start of Up Your Arsenal , while in Clank's apartment, Ratchet learned through a Channel 64 News report that Veldin had been hit by a surprise attack from an army of aliens known as the tyhrranoids , led by a villain known as Dr.

Wishing to protect his home, Ratchet installed the untested warp drive to the Star Explorer , despite Clank's protests, to reach Veldin immediately.

Once he was defeated, they realized that Qwark was amnesiac, and after being contacted by Sasha Phyronix , captain of the Starship Phoenix , returned him there on the president's orders. Sasha introduced Ratchet to his new quarters on the Starship Phoenix , which impressed him. However, he was dismayed to know that Qwark was the one President Phyronix had placed trust in. Qwark planned out two successful attacks, on Aquatos and Tyhrranosis , which both featured Ratchet front-and-center, while Qwark made excuses for not being involved.

Investigating Nefarious' operations on Daxx , Ratchet learned about a weapon known as the Biobliterator , and that Courtney Gears , a pop star of which he was a fan, was producing propaganda for Nefarious. When he and Clank attempted to learn about Nefarious' whereabouts from Courtney Gears, Gears led them into a trap and swapped Clank with a replica named Klunk , Ratchet totally unaware. Klunk informed Ratchet that Nefarious was located on his flagship, the Leviathan.

Before he could go, Ratchet first had to save Skidd, who was captured by Courtney Gears as she tested the Biobliterator on him, turning him into a robot. Ratchet defeated Courtney Gears , and began to grow slightly suspicious of Klunk. This was actually a trap, as Nefarious self-destructed the Leviathan.

Qwark remained behind on the starship to find the master plan data disk, [32] with Ratchet staying behind to wait for Qwark, though Klunk activated the shuttle and left before the ship exploded. Ratchet defeated Klunk and freed Clank, but despite Clank blaming himself, Ratchet held nothing against him and assured him that Nefarious would pay. At this point, President Phyronix effectively conceded that Nefarious would win the war within a week.

Here, Ratchet found the master plan data disk, and learned that Qwark was still alive, but chose to conceal this information while returning the data disk to Al to decipher. When he found Qwark he resigned, he berated Qwark and expressed shame for having ever looked up to him, before returning to his ship.

Sasha informed Ratchet that the Starship Phoenix , prompting Ratchet to use the gravimetric warp drive to rescue her. After rescuing Sasha, he found that Al had decoded the data disk and learned that the Biobliterator was recharging on Koros , with Veldin as its next target, enraging him. Before it could, Qwark flew in with his shuttle and interrupted the Biobliterator's fire at the last minute, and Ratchet then used a hovership and destroyed the Biobliterator with Qwark's help.

Nefarious teleported away from the Biobliterator, but was stranded on an asteroid out of range of any planet. Following Nefarious' defeat, Ratchet, alongside many friends of his he had encountered in his adventures, went to see the premiere of a new Secret Agent Clank film.

After Sasha was appointed mayor of Metropolis, Ratchet was made commander of the Starship Phoenix , with Clank as his first officer and Al as his chief engineer. Just before she could get through to him, the Phoenix was boarded, and Ratchet, Clank, and Al were all kidnapped. When Ratchet awoke, he found himself in the DreadZone Station , wearing armor that was standard issue for DreadZone contestants, [44] strapped with a deadlock collar that would detonate if he did not cooperate with Vox, and placed in a containment suite.

Ratchet's initial reaction was one of excitement, eager to experience the fame and fortune that would come with being a professional gladiator, though Clank reminded him they were being held prisoner. Ratchet was then introduced to Merc and Green , two combat bots Al had acquired from a former contestant. Throughout the show, Ratchet continued to break DreadZone records and expectations, defeating the top gladiators known as the Exterminators , while Clank and Al looked for a way to undermine DreadZone from within.

He was underestimated at every turn, by Vox News, the Exterminators, and by Vox himself. Hardlight warned Ratchet not to allow Vox to corrupt him the way Vox had corrupted Ace. Shortly after, Vox called Ratchet into his office to offer to make Ratchet champion of the Exterminators, enticing him with commercial opportunities. Heeding the warnings of Clank from the start and Hardlight from a few moments earlier, Ratchet rejected Vox's deal, calling Vox corrupt and stupid for thinking Ratchet would ever kill heroes for money.

In response, Vox sent Ratchet on one final battlecourse, the Ghost Station , which had been mathematically proven to be unbeatable. Vox then rigged the station to explode and turned the event into a final episode of DreadZone , pitting himself as the villain and Ratchet as the hero, hoping that his and Ratchet's death live on holovision would be the greatest ratings Vox had ever had. Ratchet was at first content to die there knowing that many other heroes had escaped, though Clank arrived at the last minute to rescue him on the final shuttle.

In Size Matters , wishing to take a much-needed break from heroism, Ratchet took a vacation on Pokitaru with Clank.

A kidnapping subsequently was staged by the technomites, who left behind an object that Clank identified as a technomite artifact ; Ratchet firmly believed the technomites did not exist. Ratchet then traveled to Kalidon , where he competed in a skyboard race to obtain a Shrink Ray that allowed him to catch up with Luna. Luna then sprung the trap and Ratchet was incapacitated and taken to the Medical Outpost Omega. Here, he was to have his DNA extracted to create a clone army for Otto Destruct , the technomite leader, who wished to raise the army after recognizing that even his most powerful robot soldiers were no match for Ratchet.

Ratchet as he encounter's Clank's security backup while inside Clank. While he was being experimented on, Ratchet entered a strange Dreamtime sequence, where he encountered odd hallucinations of individuals he had ran into in the past, before being awoken by Clank.

He then escaped the station and chased Luna to Challax , where he learned she was actually a technomite robot designed to lure them into a trap, and chased her once again to the Dayni Moon where he defeated her.

Clank attempted to access Luna's mainframe to find coordinates to Otto Destruct's Clone Factory , but was disabled by Luna's level nine access protocol. After fighting through the Ratchet clones, Destruct revealed that his intention with the army was to use them to gather every intelligent being in the solar system and transfer their intelligence to him. Though Qwark wished to transfer his intellect or lack thereof to Destruct to make Destruct less intelligent, an interruption caused Skrunch to do this instead, neutralizing Otto Destruct as a threat.

After this, Ratchet returned to a scheduled massage on Pokitaru. A mind control device was planted on Ratchet by Klunk, that controlled him and caused him to steal the Eye of Infinity from the Boltaire Museum. This framed Ratchet for a crime he didn't intentionally commit, causing him to be taken to Solana's Ultra High Security Prison Planet , in which he was imprisoned alongside many other inmates that he was responsible for imprisoning, such as the ThugsLess and the tyhrranoids.

The Prison Warden promised him no protection against them, though Clank, while investigating the real criminal to potentially free Ratchet, was able to supply him with weapons by disguising them as cakes so he could fend the other attackers away. Ratchet mostly spent his time fighting off prisoners and meeting old enemies, though at some points he also coordinated with Clank.

Ratchet met with Slim Cognito , who had been imprisoned for illegal deals, and passed on Clank's message in which he requested the code to access Le Paradis Des Tricheurs Casino 's High-Stakes Room, which Slim Cognito knew, but would provide only if Ratchet protected him from other villains. Ratchet also met with the Plumber , who was trying to fix the water pumps but accidentally destroyed them, sparking another battle.

The mind control device caused Ratchet to have a crazed moment in which he claimed to have set up a laser that could destroy the galaxy, and the Prison Ward hit his head and he returned to normal, but his message sparked another fight.

When Clank defeated Klunk and stopped his mind control device, President Phyronix was debriefed, and as Ratchet's actions were the consequence of mind control, he was released from prison with a full pardon.

Ratchet was testing a hoverbike in his home on Kerwan, only to be interrupted by Qwark from the Planetary Defense Center warning them about an invasion by "heavily armed robotic commandos", known as the drophyds. Ratchet and Clank then used the hoverbike to rush to defend the city from a huge invasion, and confronted the leader of the drophyd invasion, a cragmite named Emperor Percival Tachyon, who claimed he was only interested in killing Ratchet, the last known lombax in the universe.

Ratchet managed to escape Tachyon and stole his starship, which took him to the Polaris Galaxy, where he crashed on planet Cobalia.

After meeting with a Smuggler who took him to Stratus City on planet Kortog , Ratchet then used an escape pod in the city to travel to planet Fastoon, the abandoned home of the lombaxes.

The pair managed to obtain a sentient lombax starship, known as the Aphelion , and began a search for the "Lombax Secret", a weapon that was rumored to have vaporized the cragmites years ago in a war.

The search led them to the Apogee Space Station , where they encountered Talwyn Apogee , the daughter of explorer Max Apogee , and her warbots Cronk and Zephyr , and formed an alliance with them to search for the Lombax Secret. After learning from the Plumber that a weapon to vaporize the cragmites did not exist, Ratchet discovered in a hidden lombax bunker on planet Rykan V that the Lombax Secret was in fact a device known as the Dimensionator , and after finding and questioning the IRIS supercomputer , they learned that the lombaxes had won the war by banishing the cragmites to another dimension entirely.

Clank asked Ratchet destroy the Dimensionator, believing it to be too dangerous, which Ratchet disagreed. Ratchet tracked the Dimensionator to the kerchu homeworld of Jasindu , though before they could claim it, it was taken by Space Pirate Captain Slag.

The two chased and defeated Slag, though Qwark then took the Dimensionator himself to try and become a superhero, which backfired as Tachyon captured Qwark and took the Dimensionator, bringing the cragmites back into the universe as their leader. The cragmites then invaded the galaxy wholesale, starting with Meridian City , the capital of the Polaris Galaxy, on planet Igliak.

Tachyon later invaded Fastoon, and Ratchet returned to the planet with Talwyn, Cronk and Zephyr to fend off the invasion. He caught up with Tachyon, who revealed that the lombaxes had fled to an invasion after Tachyon's attack aside from two who were left behind: Ratchet's father, the guardian of the Dimensionator who Tachyon had killed , and Ratchet, who had been sent to Solana.

Tachyon offered Ratchet a compromise: he opened up a portal to the lombax dimension which they had fled to, giving him a chance to rejoin his kind but let him live in another dimension entirely.

Ratchet refused this offer, believing that no one was safe with the Dimensionator in Tachyon's hands. He fought with Tachyon, and banished Tachyon to another dimension entirely, before returning and disabling the Dimensionator for good.

Following this, Clank was kidnapped by the Zoni , a race of godlike aliens that Ratchet did not believe existed, and then resolved to find his friend. Ratchet fought with a gang of Space Pirates, and was then caught and fired out of a cannon to Hoolefar Island , home to the native hoolefoid population. The mayor introduced Ratchet to the Obsidian Eye , a device requiring a Fulcrum Star to use, that could find Clank's location. Ratchet and Talwyn followed Rusty Pete to the Morrow Caverns to search for Darkwater's corpse to find the Star, but he betrayed them as he revived Darkwater using Slag's head, as Darkwater and Slag now shared a body and summoned an army of undead pirates.

Ratchet defended Hoolefar Island from the pirates, and traveled to Darkwater Cove to find the Star, and after defeating the undead Darkwater, was able to return to the Island and use the Eye. He saw that Clank was not only held captive by the Zoni, but by Dr. Nefarious, and resolved to head to the Breegus Nebula to find him. Though the ship crash landed on planet Quantos , it suddenly stopped falling due to a time anomaly that froze it in mid-air.

After searching the planet, they met a friendly species known as the Fongoids , who told them more about the Zoni, before the planet was invaded by Lord Flint Vorselon , a mercenary working for Nefarious who mistook Ratchet for another lombax rebel named General Alister Azimuth. Qwark was kidnapped just as the battle started, though Ratchet, who repaired and upgraded the Aphelion with the Zoni's help, chased after Vorselon to his warship , freeing Qwark and the fongoids.

Once accomplished, he then decided to track down Azimuth to Torren IV with the hope of gaining new information. Ratchet met Azimuth on the planet, and after a brief confrontation following a misunderstanding, Azimuth recognized Ratchet as his friend Kaden's son, and the two bonded.

Ratchet did question Azimuth on why he didn't stay with his father while the surviving lombax's fled during Tachyon's mass destruction, but Azimuth merely said that the universe had a cruel sense of humor, and soon after changed the subject by offering Ratchet his father's Hoverboots. Knowing he had gained another ally, Ratchet agreed with Azimuth to find the Great Clock where Clank was located, and defeat Nefarious. Later on, Azimuth had told Ratchet to meet him in Axiom City on planet Terachnos , as he claimed to know a way to try and contact Clank, who was still within the Great Clock.

Soon after dealing with more of Nefarious' soldiers, they were able to break into an information center where Azimuth managed to locate an active Obsidian Eye on planet Lumos. Once there, they had another run-in with Nefarious' army and chose to help the Vullard slow them down, and in exchange they would show them where the Obsidian Eye is.

Once Ratchet and Azimuth got to the Obsidian Eye, they were successfully able to get a signal on Clank, who was still focusing on his own work to repair the clock from the effects and damages it caused on many of the planets. Clank, surprised and happy to see Ratchet again as he was, explained to him with the little time he had before the signal was lost that he needed his help. He asked him to look for a portal on planet Zanifar , where it would take him back two years to when Dr.

Nefarious had ambushed Orvus , knowing it was the last place anyone knew where he was before he had supposedly disappeared. On the way to Zanifar, Azimuth explained to Ratchet the supposed consequences of using the clock if they were to go back and save the lombax's, to which Ratchet agreed to pursuing despite knowing that altering the timeline would prevent him from ever meeting Clank.

Once Ratchet found the portal on Zanifar, he soon realized after going back in time that it was the planet Nefarious and Lawrence had crash landed on after being stuck on the meteorite for a while. He is able to bust into the station within that planet, where he soon comes across Nefarious interrogating Orvus on how to get into the Orvus Chamber stationed within the Great Clock.

Orvus still refused to, claiming that the clock was not meant to be used as a time machine. Nevertheless, Nefarious tried using the Hypersonic Brainwave Scrambler to get Orvus to talk, but Orvus was able to block the attack. During which time, he claimed there was only one person who was able to get into his chamber, and that he was far from Nefarious to get to. In that moment, Orvus suddenly disappeared, but after looking more into his databanks just before he escaped, a picture of Clank had popped up.

Ratchet was surprised to see it was Clank, which caught Nefarious' attention, causing Ratchet to flea through the windows immediately after he threw an explosive right in front of Nefarious' face.

In the present, the explosion carried over to Nefarious in the current time, infuriating him once realizing Ratchet had gone back in time. Ratchet continued to search all over the Breegus System fighting off Nefarious' forces, including another run-in with Flint Vorselon , who had captured Azimuth while Ratchet was on his mission in Zanifar.

Once Vorselon was defeated once more and Azimuth freed, the search for Clank continued. While in the Bernilius Sector , Ratchet had picked up a distress call with Clank's signature on it. This eventually led to the Valkyrie citadel on Vapedia , where Nefarious had used Clank as a decoy for Valkyrie leader Cassiopeia to kill Ratchet and Azimuth.

Ratchet had already had a run-in with the other two leaders of the Valkerie's Libra and Carina during the story, but were able to destroy their ships during separate confrontations, eliminating them as threats. Ratchet soon after had his final run-in with Cassiopeia after realizing she had Clank held hostage within a machine suspending him. After causing her vehicle to malfunction, the vehicle smashed the glass Clank was in, and soon after lead Cassiopeia to fall to her death.

Luckily, Ratchet was able to catch the suddenly-conscious Clank using his Hoverboots, and the two friends were finally reunited once more.