rug rat

slang

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of rug rat Third row seats are best left for rug rats, or folded. cleveland, 22 Feb. 2020 Your standard maternal protagonist is not dropping a trail of pacifiers behind her, swilling goblets of red wine the minute her rug rats are in bed, and secretly vaping in the linen closet? Chloe Schama, Vogue, 14 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rug rat
Noun
  • As a preschooler Walton was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and, according to the Walton family, was cured in part thanks to his mother feeding him an all-natural diet.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 19 June 2025
  • The program is designed for preschoolers, but children of all ages are welcome.
    Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Kansas banned gender-affirming treatments for minors.
    The NPR Network, NPR, 1 July 2025
  • The Supreme Court also upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
    Rachel Hale, USA Today, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • Other research shows that up to 22% of the children and adolescents also struggle with disordered eating.
    Sam Woodward, USA Today, 27 June 2025
  • Meanwhile, a group of adolescents run wild in the forest.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • For the 2023-24 school year, 96.2% of California’s kindergartners were vaccinated against measles, according to the CDC — one of the higher rates of any state.
    Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
  • The grade school was founded in 2013 and serves kindergartners through fifth graders.
    Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Although still a schoolboy preparing for his GCSEs, Monga was registered as an academy player and, as such, a club couldn’t approach him or his family officially.
    Rob Tanner, New York Times, 12 June 2025
  • Roberts, who often looked to me like an English schoolboy—rumpled shirt, rep tie—had worked with Tina to transform the British magazine Tatler from a staid society rag into a place of mischief.
    Hilton Als, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • In a Monday statement, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong said China and Japan were working toward a constructive and stable relationship, and expressed his regret over the death of the Japanese schoolchild.
    Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Louisiana just enthusiastically passed a law designed to convert every schoolchild in the state to Christianity.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024
Noun
  • In passenger cars, car seats reduce the risk of fatal injury by 71 percent for infants and by 54 percent for toddlers.
    Michelle Stansbury, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • An infant being awake at this time is something most parents would probably dread seeing.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Leavitt became a polarizing figure after posting a video of herself dancing in front of her newborn who had been hospitalized with RSV.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 30 June 2025
  • Tennessee, for example, requires hospitals to provide parents of newborns with information about pertussis, or whooping cough, and about the availability of a vaccine for pertussis, using information that’s in line with ACIP recommendations.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 30 June 2025

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“Rug rat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rug%20rat. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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