Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A device for trapping rats.
- noun Informal A dilapidated or unsanitary dwelling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
device (trap ) used to catchrats . - noun A
dilapidated building, a place that is run down and unsanitary. - noun A difficult, entangling situation.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a difficult entangling situation
- noun filthy run-down dilapidated housing
- noun a trap for catching rats
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Examples
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Under the sink sat an old rattrap identical to the two that I had taken earlier.
Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010
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The oldest one is counting the days until he turns eighteen and can leave this rattrap.
Learning to Die in Miami Carlos Eire 2010
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Under the sink sat an old rattrap identical to the two that I had taken earlier.
Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010
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By the time it became my home it was quite a rattrap.
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Yet we are also drawn to workaday items such as cowbells, noodle-makers, and a cleverly designed rattrap.
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The promise of fame is the cheese in Baron Cohen's rattrap of a movie, and everybody bites.
Cohen’s ‘Borat’ 2008
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But, really, you and the others here have hammered away for the democrats to some up with a “plan” or have an “agenda” for the future — - well, be careful what you wish for, NED, us conservatives are getting caught in our own rattrap.
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This is the worst mess he's seen in several dozen old-rattrap renovations.
As the pigeon loft turns jhetley 2006
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Cardenas awoke to a crawling sensation the likes of which he had experienced only once before, twenty years earlier while engaged in a stakeout in a rattrap of a motel in the worst part of Tucson.
The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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Her teeth protruded from the withered binding like a set rattrap.
Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter Barbara Robinette Moss 2001
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