The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word RATHOLE
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More clues leading to the result RATHOLE
- Short break included in price for whiskery type’s getaway?
- Look up in kind of bottomless pit
- Artist has to put up with squalid room
- Peg follows artist to renegade’s home
- Small room pretty inadequate — look around inside it
- Squatter finally turned a hotel into a squalid place
- At hotel taking part outside in beastly space
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What does RATHOLE mean?
RATHOLE noun- An entrance to a living area or passageway used by mice or rats.
- A living area used by mice or rats.
- A particularly squalid human residence.
- An area of a silo that has undergone ratholing, so that material moves mostly through the centre and accumulates around the edges.
- A pigeonhole.
- To hoard.
- To take a conversation off topic, especially in technical meetings.
- To surreptitiously or prematurely remove chips during a poker game.
- (of material) to empty only in the center of a hopper or silo, persisting circumferentially.