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rug rat

rug rat is the alternative form of rugrat.

Meaning of rugrat

Noun

rugrat (plural rugrats)

  1. (derogatory, humorous, in plural, slang) A toddler, a young child.
    • So my mom, who is truly a saint, had the unfortunate job of raising three selfish rug rats, with little to no income in a town she didn't know with zero friends around.2015, David Spade, Almost Interesting: The Memoir, HarperCollins, →ISBN

Forms of rug rat

pluralrug rats

Questions about rug rat

What is rug rat the alternative form of?
Rug rat is the alternative form of rugrat.

Words near rug rat in the dictionary

  1. rug pull
  2. rug pulled
  3. rug pulling
  4. rug pulls
  5. rug ranking
  6. rug rat
  7. rug rats
  8. rug rider
  9. rug riders
  10. rug up
  11. rug-cutter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rug rat (page history and authors); rugrat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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