noun
- a trap designed to catch rats
- a run-down, dilapidated building or place
Usage: informal
Examples
- The farmer set several rattraps in the barn to control the rodent problem.
- We baited the rattrap with cheese and placed it near the hole in the wall.
- That old apartment building is a real rattrap with broken windows and peeling paint.
- I can’t believe you’re living in that rattrap downtown.
- The health inspector condemned the restaurant, calling it an unsanitary rattrap.
- She escaped from the rattrap of her childhood neighborhood through education.