ratmageddon
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ratmageddon (countable and uncountable, plural ratmageddons)
- (informal) A disaster caused by or involving rats.
- 2016 September 1, Carl Hoffman, “The project that could help determine Israel's future”, in The Jerusalem Post:
- Although we thus far seem to have been spared the traffic nightmares many people feared and what others were variously calling the coming “ratmageddon” or “ratpocalypse,” some issues that needed to be resolved have not yet been fixed.
- 2017 October 26, “Breaking up Chicago's rat pack”, in Chicago Tribune:
- Money well spent, we say, if it eases the threat of a rat-mageddon in Chicago.
- 2019 February 25, “Hunting rats with the dogs and men of the Tweed Valley Rat Pack”, in Scottish Field:
- When they finally hit the main nest it's ratmageddon as the terriers dive into the hole and onto their cornered quarry.