Rat-ridden

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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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