rat pit
noun1
Historical An enclosed space into which rats are placed to be killed by a dog for sport.
2
Informal A dreadful place.
- Kurrell looked round the rat-pit of Kashima and made no reply.1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Wayside Comedy”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 73:
- Related terms
- rat-baiting, ratting