Brat Pack

Proper noun

the Brat Pack

1. (historical, informal) A group of young actors who frequently appeared together in teen-oriented coming-of-age films in the 1980s.
2. (historical, informal) A group of young authors who emerged on the East Coast in the 1980s.
   • Introduced as the bad boy of American letters, the brattiest of the Brat Pack that included Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz and other chroniclers of young Reagan-era angst, Mr. Ellis has achieved over the last 20 years a level of notoriety and acclaim that has eluded most of his peers.2005 August 7, Edward Wyatt, “Bret Easton Ellis: The Man in the Mirror”, in The New York Times, →ISSN