A topic of conversation that has diverted wildly from the original conversational thread and is generally viewed by all (but the one leading the topic) as being without resolution, or at the very least is uninteresting to others in the group. Ratholes usually open up when related but tangential topics are discussed which are explored in much more detail than is required for the relational reference to the original thread.
I was trying to keep things on topic, but you've opened up a big rathole with all this talk of comic book plot twists.
by Stark Raven Mad August 4, 2007
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Man, I was lost 2 hours and missed a meeting because I went down a Wikipedia Rathole. However, I do now know that Richie Sambora is was born in Woodbridge, NJ.
NOTE: Original search was snow fall amounts in the NE.
NOTE: Original search was snow fall amounts in the NE.
by spaceman2004 October 29, 2009
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This is where documents procrastinate after apathetic organization has rodented (is that a word yet? I mean ferreted and squirreled are verbs, but there are plenty of rodents that succinctly define the behavior) them away to an innocuous corner of of an administrative employee's office.
How did you find the Jonathon estate contract? That wasn't in his folder.
I just dug it out of the rathole file. Looks like the last signature on it is five years old.
I just dug it out of the rathole file. Looks like the last signature on it is five years old.
by enkephalin07 August 19, 2023
Get the rathole file mug.Your significant other things you spent $1,000, however you stashed it away for keeping. You have "ratholed" $1,000.
by 1015s July 9, 2009
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by c88pokahz April 29, 2010
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by BoddyT August 6, 2011
Get the rathole mug.A second anal hole that can be dried up. This is then a stiff rathole. It needs to be moisturized at this point. If you don't a tentacle will come out.
He has a big rathole.
by Stiff Rathole July 7, 2017
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