Definitions for ratholes

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ratholes rat·hole

Spelling: [rat-hohl]

IPA: /ˈrætˌhoʊl/

Ratholes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 582 anagrams from letters in ratholes (aehlorst).

Definitions for ratholes

noun

1. a hole made by a rat, as into a room, barn, etc.:
2. the burrow or shelter of a rat.
3. any small and uncomfortable room, office, apartment, etc., especially one that is dirty or disordered:

Idioms

1. down the rathole, for a worthless purpose or purposes:

Origin of ratholes

First recorded in 1805-15; rat + hole

Examples for ratholes

One of the men of rathole came to Jan's side and tried the engines.

He had seven hours to go and he was still at least 16 kilometers from rathole.

You will have to take a groundcar to rathole and bring the fellow back.

He knew every rathole of the system, with the same intimacy the rats knew them.

The platform was in a warehouse which, like the rest of the structures in rathole, was a half-buried dome.

There was nothing to do but turn back to rathole and see if some other way could not be found.