ratholer 

A person who intermittently raises a matter they know will lead to personal anxiety for a friend or acquaintenance; a person who wilfully wants to take a person down a rathole of discomfort.

Paul decided to bring up the matter of lazy civil servants with Ted again. Paul was being a ratholer

ratholer by proust23 June 19, 2011

Pounding Sand Down a Rathole 

An expression used to signify a menial or fruitless task; frequently to be preformed by someone not of sound mind or full capacity.

Giving money directly to a hopeless alcoholic to help him improve his situation is like pounding sand down a rathole.

Pounding Sand Down a Rathole by modtrtr March 6, 2009

rathole

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.

rathole by Stark Raven Mad August 4, 2007

Wikipedia Rathole 

The act of losing between 45-120 minutes while performing click-throughs from the initial Wikipedia page you were interested in.... often leading you to knowledge that has no relationship what-so-ever to your original search.

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.

Wikipedia Rathole by spaceman2004 October 29, 2009

rathole file 

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.

rathole file by enkephalin07 August 19, 2023

ratholed 

to hide away.

Your significant other things you spent $1,000, however you stashed it away for keeping. You have "ratholed" $1,000.

ratholed by 1015s July 9, 2009

rathole

Poker jargon for a no-limit strategy of buying in for only a small amount and leaving the game as soon as the buy-in is doubled.

A guy with 10 bets in front of him doubled up and then jumped back in his rathole.

rathole by c88pokahz April 29, 2010