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 rat hole.
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.
West Midlands slang word for rockers, bikers, greasers etc. In the late 1980s it was used by the UK music press to refer to a specific scene centered around the bands Pop Will Eat Itself and Crazyhead. The term never found favour with readers of 'the inkies' (Sounds, Melody Maker and the still extant NME) and was soon dropped. Now often used in predominantly working-class areas of the midlands and the north to mean someone who listens to rock-derived music and/or dresses in a manner that suggests they affiliate themselves with rock music of some kind.
Some grebo passed with Sabbath playing on his stereo.
The Poppies are at no. 17? God, a grebo band in the charts!
They're playing nu-metal now, bloody grebos!