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  • noun An entrance to a living area or passageway used by mice or rats.
  • noun A living area used by mice or rats.
  • noun A particularly squalid human residence.
  • noun An area of a silo that has undergone ratholing, 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 a poker game.
  • verb intransitive (of material) to empty only in the center of a hopper or silo, persisting circumferentially.

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  • noun a small dirty uncomfortable room
  • noun a hole (as in the wall of a building) made by rats

Etymologies

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rat +‎ hole

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