rat pit

English

Noun

rat pit (plural rat pits)

  1. (historical) An enclosed space into which rats are placed to be killed by a dog for sport.
  2. (informal) A dreadful place.
    • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Wayside Comedy”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 73:
      Kurrell looked round the rat-pit of Kashima and made no reply.

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