lab rat

Definitions

1. 1

   A student or employee who spends a great deal of time working in a laboratory.

   • As a graduate student, she loved being a “lab rat,” Dr. Blackburn said, adding, “I was just really focused on the science, the science, the science.”
2. 2

   A person or group used as the subject of an experiment or test, especially unwillingly or…

   A person or group used as the subject of an experiment or test, especially unwillingly or unwittingly.

   • Tests were done on me that you can't even imagine. For years. Cerberus did them. They tortured me. They used me as a damn lab rat. And now you're teaming up with them like they're any other merc band?
   • This time, Vincent . . . became an unwitting lab rat for a vaccine that turned soldiers into hyperaggressive killing machines.

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