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hood rat

noun

Etymology

From hood (“neighborhood”) + rat. First use appears c. 1993 in the Philadelphia Tribune.

  1. derived from *Hreh₃d-✻ — “to scrape, scratch, gnaw”
  2. inherited from *rattaz✻
  3. inherited from *ratt✻
  4. inherited from rætt
  5. inherited from ratte
  6. compounded as hood rat — “hood + rat”

Definitions

  1. A person, especially a man or a woman, from an urban neighborhood who overtly exhibits…

    A person, especially a man or a woman, from an urban neighborhood who overtly exhibits attributes associated with inner city life, especially in both behavior and appearance.

    • Let's get a couple of hood rats over for the party tonight.
    • It is true. Carmen is an official gold digger. In fact, she is an instructor at the school of gold digging. Hood rats have been clocking her style for years. Wanting to pull the players she pulled, and wishing they had the looks she had.

The neighborhood

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