(informal) a small dirty uncomfortable room

Usage examples of rathole.

Frightened the chupacabras is going to come hopping out of a rathole and bite them on the ass!

Foxes down foxholes and rats in ratholes may be wailing, true, that's how it works, but we are not about to find any starving hyenas in western Wisconsin.

Her face is pale and sweaty, her eyes huge with unshed tears, but the moving shadows on the ceiling no longer look like faces to her - the faces of trudging children, of rats in their ratholes, foxes in foxholes, eye of the King, Abbalah-Abbalah-doon!

To her it had always sounded like the music you heard in the old cartoons, the ones where mice in white gloves ran in and out of ratholes with dizzying, feverish speed.

Down there in the foxholes and the ratholes where the sun never shines?

The doctor felt sick and helpless to deal with this abomination and decided to barricade himself for the night in one room with a closely fitting door, where he could stop the ratholes with broken glass.

It was bad enough on the groundbut belowground it was ratholes, with suffocating smells.

For the day when there'd be enough of them to swarm up out of their ratholes and attempt what Lev Merrin had tried in 238.

Inos had folded her bedding into a thick bundle and was sitting on it, pouting at the ratholes in the wainscoting opposite, while Azak was leaning back against the wall, legs straight.