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prats

prats is the plural of prat.

Meaning of prat

Noun (1)

prat (plural prats)

  1. (Scotland) A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.

Noun (2)

prat (plural prats)

  1. (slang) A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom.
    • Pratt, a Buttock.1608, Thomas Dekker, The Canters Dictionarie in The Belman of London (second part Lanthorne and Candlelight)
  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang) A fool, contemptible person.
    • Those protestors will have achieved nothing good. They are stupid prats.2023 June 29, Metro, London, page 10, column 3
  3. (slang) The female genitals.
    • "She's a far better piece
      Than the Viceroy's niece,
      Who has also more fur on her prat."1967 (sourced to 1942), William A. Schwartz, The Limerick: 1700 Examples with Notes, Variants and Examples Vol 1, Greenleaf Classics 1967, p. 124

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Phrases with prats

Questions about prats

What is prats the plural of?
Prats is the plural of prat.

Words near prats in the dictionary

  1. Pratishtha
  2. pratityasamutpada
  3. pratiyasamutpada
  4. Prato
  5. pratol
  6. prats
  7. prats about
  8. prats around
  9. pratt
  10. Pratt County
  11. Pratt knot

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