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1. Oxford Dictionary

   rathole

   • IPA[ˈrathəʊl]

   英式

   • n.
     a cramped or squalid room or building；used to refer to the waste of money or resources
   • v.
     hide (money or goods), typically as part of a deception

   • noun: rathole, plural noun: ratholes

2. • 釋義

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. informal a cramped or squalid room or building a rathole where a friend lived until her place was broken into for the seventeenth time
   • 2. North American informal used to refer to the waste of money or resources pouring our assets down the rathole of military expenditure
   • 3. (in the oil industry) a shallow hole drilled near a well to accommodate the drill string joint when not in use.
   • ▪ a small hole drilled at the bottom of a larger hole.

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. North American informal hide (money or goods), typically as part of a deception he had ratholed the nine thousand that nobody could find
3. • 更多解釋

   rathole

   • IPA[ˈratˌ(h)ōl]

   美式

   • n.
     a cramped or squalid room or building: a rathole where a friend lived until her place was broken into for the seventeenth time
   • v.
     hide (money or goods), typically as part of a fraud or deception: he had ratholed the nine thousand that nobody could find

   Oxford American Dictionary