Cartoon expletive

The answer

DRAT

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DRAT answer page.

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for DRAT

Every other clue in this collection answered by DRAT, most used first.

• "Phooey!" - used 213 times, most recently in 2026
• "Darn it!" - used 91 times, most recently in 2026
• Mild oath - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
• Mild expletive - used 77 times, most recently in 2025
• "Doggone it!" - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
• "Shucks!" - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• "Curses!" - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• "Fiddlesticks!" - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• "Shoot!" - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• "Darn!" - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• "Dang!" - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• "Confound it!" - used 25 times, most recently in 2021
• "Dagnabbit!" - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• "Nuts!" - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• "Doggone!" - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• "Rats!" - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• "Darn it all!" - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• "Blast it!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
• "Fudge!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• "Blast!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• "Blast the luck!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2013
• "Oh, fudge!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
• "Aw, nuts!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• "Dang it!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• "Gosh darn it!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• "Nerts!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• "Aw, heck!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• "Aw, shucks!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• "Oh, bother!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Cartoon bear - YOGI, used 42 times
• Mild expletive - EGAD, used 41 times
• Cartoon explorer - DORA, used 34 times
• Cartoon skunk Le Pew - PEPE, used 33 times
• Charlie Brown expletive - RATS, used 32 times
• Cartoon collectibles - CELS, used 29 times

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