rat-running
noun
the practice of driving through residential side streets to avoid congested main roads
rat-run
-
a word derived from
rat-running.
Example Sentences
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She loved the house feverishly, calling it “my Mena”, even though it was freezing, rat-run and chunks of the old wing kept crashing off.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2018
"Long and winding road baffles drivers on the rat-run," offered the Times.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2014
The plot, involving Burt Lancaster as an assistant D.A. assigned to prosecute teen-age gangsters, is straight out of Hollywood's pasteboard jungle, but the camerawork in Manhattan's rat-run slums is cruelly authentic.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am not cut out for rat-run soldiering!
From The Winds of the World by Talbot Mundy
Lay it down at the opening of this rat-run, where you enter it from the house.
From A Little Wizard by Stanley J. Weyman
