a person who is being extremely annoying. It is a combination of the wordsrat and asshole. It can be used in anger or towards a friend in a joking matter.
Wow omg I cant believe you stole my cookie, you’re such a rathole.
A person or friend, outside an entity to secretly move money or launder money making it appear to have earned money legally.
He persuaded friends outside the company to act as “rat holes”, handing them stakes in each new issue, which would belong to that person on paper, but which, in fact, would be originator's money and originator’s stake.
Made famous by the TWIT podcast Macbreak Weekly, a rathole is when a discussion follows a constant tangent and ends up with a topic that has nothing to do with the original discussion.
That discussion of Macs which changed into a discussion of classical music was quite the rathole.
To digress in an extensive way. To divert the conversation to a topic that is not only unrelated to the topic at hand, but a topic that will likely have no immediate resolution either.
That's an interesting discussion, but let's stay on track and not go down a rat-hole.
Term used to describe someone who is a mix of both rural (country) and urban (metropolitan) lifestyles/upbringings. He/she is typically equally comfortable in both settings and is able to seamlessly slip back and forth between the two, appreciating the characteristics of each.
That ol' gal of mine drives the 12lane freeway during the week and a John Deere on the weekends. She likes opra and the Grand Ol' Opry. I love them countrypolitan women.