rat run

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small, usually minor road used by a significant amount of traffic as a short cut or to avoid congestion on more major routes. idiomatic
    — This week Wykeham Street in Scarborough was named as the worst rat run in Britain. […] A ‘rat run’ sounds like some sort of charity jog by rodents keen to improve their image, but it is of course a side street that suffers from being heavily used by through-traffic as a short-cut.
动词 v.
  1. To drive through residential streets to avoid congestion on the main roads. idiomatic

词形变化

rat runs plural rat runs present,singular,third-person rat running participle,present rat ran past rat run participle,past
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