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
  • The program is designed for preschoolers, but children of all ages are welcome.
    Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Getting out the door with a preschooler (or two) in tow can feel like a marathon in the morning, but with a bit of structure and a lot of empathy, the transition can be seamless.
    Katrina Donham, Parents, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The first violins unfurl a lilting, lightly bopping tune in D minor.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • She was arrested in December of that year and pleaded guilty to two counts of stalking a minor.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Use of complementary and alternative medicine in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review.
    Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Children and adolescents ages 2 to 18, without other high-risk factors like immunosuppression, can receive and should be offered the vaccine if they were not immunized before, according to the guidance.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • My baby is suddenly old enough to be a kindergartener.
    Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Growing up in the palate of the German language forced me constantly into this two-by-two, like a line of kindergartners.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The album’s pointed cover, showing a dolorous schoolboy gripping a phone while holding a basketball, hints at the weighty revelations contained therein.
    Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
  • On Sanday, another one of the Orkney Islands, a warship connected to the American Revolution was uncovered on a beach by a schoolboy.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 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
  • She is charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, and concealing the birth of an infant, the Lexington Police Department said in a news release.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Drummond is blamed for the deaths of the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a home's front yard in rural west Tennessee.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The 60-second spot will also appear on social media and via broadband outlets, Families will be invited to share photos of newborns on Instagram or TikTok for a chance to win a year’s supply of diapers.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This occurs for newborns – those less than a day old – as well as older infants – those 1 month to 1 year old.
    Brad Greenwood, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Rug rat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rug%20rat. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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