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rug rat

noun

Definition of rug rat

slang
: a child not yet old enough for school

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 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, "In Sharon Horgan’s Motherland, All Moms Are Bad Moms," 14 May 2018 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, "In Sharon Horgan’s Motherland, All Moms Are Bad Moms," 14 May 2018

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First Known Use of rug rat

circa 1970, in the meaning defined above

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