Usually means: Hole where rodents nest, hide.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word rathole:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. rathole: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rathole, rathole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rathole: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rathole: Vocabulary.com
  5. Rathole, rathole: Wordnik
  6. rathole: Wiktionary
  7. rathole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. rathole: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. rathole: Dictionary.com
  10. Rathole (Edmonton): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. rathole: Rhymezone
  12. rathole: Free Dictionary
  13. rathole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. rathole: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rathole: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rathole, rathole: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rathole: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rathole)

noun:  An entrance to a living area or passageway used by mice or rats.
noun:  A living area used by mice or rats, or a similar living area used by other animals.
noun:  A particularly squalid human residence or other place.
noun:  An area of a silo that has undergone ratholing, so that material moves mostly through the centre and accumulates around the edges.
noun:  (printing) A pigeonhole.
verb:  (transitive) To hoard.
verb:  (transitive) To take a conversation off topic, especially in technical meetings.
verb:  (transitive, poker) To surreptitiously or prematurely remove chips during a poker game.
verb:  (intransitive, poker) To exit a cash game and re-enter with a smaller stack.
verb:  (intransitive) (of material) To empty only in the center of a hopper or silo, persisting circumferentially.

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