Definitions
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- noun An entrance to a living area or
passageway used bymice orrats . - noun A living area used by mice or rats.
- noun A particularly
squalid human residence. - noun An area of a
silo that has undergoneratholing , so that material moves mostly through the centre and accumulates around the edges. - verb transitive to
hoard . - verb transitive to take a conversation off topic, especially in technical meetings.
- verb transitive to surreptitiously or prematurely
remove chips during apoker game. - verb intransitive (of material) to
empty only in the center of ahopper orsilo , persistingcircumferentially .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small dirty uncomfortable room
- noun a hole (as in the wall of a building) made by rats
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Examples
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Earlier this year, human rights organizations charged that over 70,000 children were impressed into labor in some of the nation's most dangerous "rathole" mines.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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Earlier this year, human rights organizations charged that over 70,000 children were impressed into labor in some of the nation's most dangerous "rathole" mines.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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Earlier this year, human rights organizations charged that over 70,000 children were impressed into labor in some of the nation's most dangerous "rathole" mines.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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Earlier this year, human rights organizations charged that over 70,000 children were impressed into labor in some of the nation's most dangerous "rathole" mines.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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Earlier this year, human rights organizations charged that over 70,000 children were impressed into labor in some of the nation's most dangerous "rathole" mines.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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Earlier this year, human rights organizations charged that over 70,000 children were impressed into labor in some of the nation's most dangerous "rathole" mines.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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In the Jaintia Hills in northeast India, according to human-rights organizations, more than 70,000 children continue to labor in dangerous rathole coal mines.
Jeff Biggers: As the Extraction World Turns: Peabody Doubles Profits, 37 Dead Chinese Miners, 70,000 Indian Children in Mines Jeff Biggers 2010
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In the Jaintia Hills in northeast India, according to human rights organizations, over 70,000 children continue to labor in dangerous rathole coal mines.
Jeff Biggers: As the Extraction World Turns: Peabody Doubles Profits, 37 Dead Chinese Miners, 70,000 Indian Children in Mines Jeff Biggers 2010
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Can you provide a link to the “hundreds of billions” you claimed were currently being “thrown down the global warming rathole”?
Think Progress » Brown wins Massachusetts special election; Coakley concedes. 2010
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We were concerned when bush was throwing money down a rathole.
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