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rat hole
noun- a small, messy, cluttered place UK, 1812
- “This week, five in a rathole built for four.” — Georgia Sothern, My Life in Burlesque, p. 36, 1972
- You so hooked up trying to look dirty and live in the nastiest rathole in the ghetto, trying to be a ghetto black[.] — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 178, 1978
- You might speak to Mister Fein about this rathole that we live in. — George V. Higgins, The Rat on Fire, p. 89, 1981
- Viceroy Wilson didn’t belong in a rathole dive on South Beach[.] — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 48, 1986
- I go, “How can you live in a rat hole like this and drive a Cadillac?” and he got pissed. — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, p. 235, 1991
- He hoped some junkie would burglarize his goddamn rathole of an apartment so he could make an inflated insurance claim. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 3, 1993
- Do you think I care what rat-hole store in that shit-pit you call the dirt mall has the latest Godzilla bootleg? — Mallrats, 1995
- [T]he UWF covered much more territory than WCCW did—which meant that the venues ranged from nice modern arenas to rat holes. — Missy Hyatt, Missy Hyatt, p. 45, 2001
- When you drink in a rat hole, you can get shit-faced out of your mind and not get molested as long as you understand that the critical issue is respect for people’s privacy. — James Lee Burke, Pegasus Descending, p. 67, 2006
- a railway tunnel US
- — J. Herbert Lund, Herb’s Hot Box of Railraod Slang, p. 92, 1975
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