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rattrap

[ rat-trap ]

noun

  1. a device for catching rats.
  2. a run-down, filthy, or dilapidated place.
  3. a difficult, involved, or entangling situation.


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Origin of rattrap1

1425–75; late Middle English. See rat, trap 1
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While cleaning it I found lots of matches, a cap, and a rattrap.

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He had accidentally stumbled upon the rattraps, two of which were attached crookedly to his sneakers.

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Chumley’s, he wrote, came well recommended when he was seeking a place to take “a ‘nice girl’ instead of the rattraps I usually patronized.â€

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The carton was very sticky, covered in glue from rattraps.

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He remembers that house as a “rattrap,†a term that had an all-too-literal meaning for Rice, whose feet were bitten by rodents while he slept.

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