rug rat

slang

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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. —1945: The Year the War Ended, 1 p.m. March 1.
    Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Key Takeaway Sleeping through the night may be challenging for some babies, toddlers, and preschoolers.
    Heather Gowen Walsh, Parents, 13 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Sixty-five minors and at least two pregnant women are among the deportees, Omer Badilla, Costa Rica’s deputy minister of the interior and police, told Noticias Telemundo on Wednesday.
    Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2025
  • There was balanced transparency in even the most fiery moments of Schubert’s Fantasy in F minor.
    Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Thirty-six percent of adolescents were overweight in 2022, according to data from the California Health Interview Survey at UCLA.
    Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The study did not look at surgeries among transgender adolescents.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In the Fort Worth school district, the county’s largest, the number of kindergartners who are up-to-date with the MMR vaccine has dropped from 96% of students in the 2019-20 school year to 84% in 2023-24.
    Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The share of kindergartners with vaccine exemptions increased in 40 states plus Washington, D.C., during the 2023-24 school year, per the CDC.
    Adriel Bettelheim, Axios, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In September last year, a 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy was killed in a second knife attack near another Japanese school in the southern city of Shenzhen.
    Chris Lau, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The air kiss and Trump's schoolboy grin show a glimpse of the sparks still there.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 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
  • The story is that as an infant, Brooks couldn’t tolerate cow’s milk and was suffering with malnutrition.
    J.M. Banks, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Three young children, including an infant, died of smoke inhalation after a fire broke out inside their Georgia apartment, officials told news outlets.
    Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The worldwide program, which Parton founded in her home county in 1995, mails free books to children from newborns to age five.
    James Factora, Them, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Potential Complications The connection between bleeding and vitamin K deficiency, especially in newborns or those taking warfarin, is well known.
    Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 13 Feb. 2025

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“Rug rat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rug%20rat. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.

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