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rattrap definition

rat·trap (rat′trap′)

noun

  1. a trap for catching rats
  2. a hopeless situation; desperate predicament
  3. Informal a dirty, run-down building

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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