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Definition of Rattrap

1. Noun. A difficult entangling situation.

2. Noun. Filthy run-down dilapidated housing.

3. Noun. A trap for catching rats.

Definition of Rattrap

1. Noun. A device (trap) used to catch rats. ¹

2. Noun. A dilapidated building, a place that is run down and unsanitary. ¹

3. Noun. A difficult, entangling situation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rattrap

1. a trap for catching rats [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rattrap

rattlin rattline rattlines rattling rattling(a) rattlingly rattlings rattlins rattly ratton

rattons rattoon rattooned rattooning rattoons rattrap (current term) rattraps ratty ratu ratus

raubasine raucid raucities raucity raucle raucler rauclest raucous raucously raucousness

Literary usage of Rattrap

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Americans at Home: Or, Byeways, Backwoods, and Prairies by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1854)
"... the chap begin puffin' an' blowin' like er green lizzard on er hot fence rail, an' his mouth it flew open like er rattrap when it's sot. ..."

2. The Americans at Home: Or, Byeways, Backwoods, and Prairies by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1854)
"... the chap begin puffin' an' blowin' like er green lizzard on er hot fence rail, an' his mouth it flew open like er rattrap when it's sot. ..."

3. Chapters in Modern Botany by Patrick Geddes (1893)
"... to twenty long teeth, and, when the leaf closes, those of one side interlock with those of the other, thus forming a very perfect miniature rattrap. ..."

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