rathole

plural ratholes

1. An entrance to a living area or passageway used by mice or rats.
2. A living area used by mice or rats, or a similar living area used by other animals.

   Bhantus catch the sanda, or broad-tailed lizard, which dwells in rat-holes in the ground and lives always in fear of the cobra.

   1913, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, page 122

3. A particularly squalid human residence or other place.
4. An area of a silo that has undergone ratholing, so that material moves mostly through the centre and accumulates around the edges.
5. mediaA pigeonhole.

present singular third person ratholes · participle present ratholing · participle past ratholed · past ratholed

1. transitiveTo hoard.
2. transitiveTo take a conversation off topic, especially in technical meetings.
3. transitivecard gamesTo surreptitiously or prematurely remove chips during a poker game.
4. intransitivecard gamesTo exit a cash game and re-enter with a smaller stack.
5. intransitive(of material) To empty only in the center of a hopper or silo, persisting circumferentially.