Rat-ridden
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Full of or infested with rats.
"He then lays certain silver money on the table, finds his hat, gropes his way down the broken stairs, gives a good morning to some rat-ridden doorkeeper, in bed in a black hutch beneath the stairs, and passes out."
Example
More examples"He then lays certain silver money on the table, finds his hat, gropes his way down the broken stairs, gives a good morning to some rat-ridden doorkeeper, in bed in a black hutch beneath the stairs, and passes out."
Etymology
From rat + -ridden.
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