rat pit

noun

An enclosed space into which rats are placed to be killed by a dog for sport.

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Meanings

nounrat pit (plural rat pits)

plural rat pits

  1. historicalAn enclosed space into which rats are placed to be killed by a dog for sport.
  2. informalA dreadful place.

    Kurrell looked round the rat-pit of Kashima and made no reply.

    1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Wayside Comedy”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 73
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