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Rugrat

Rugrat

3 8.4
A toddler character in an American cartoon show
  • proper noun
  • /ˈrʌɡræt/
: Rugrat
  • That feeling when your grandma turns off Rugrats right when Chucky goes on.

Examples

  • Like back in the day, stuff like Rugrats was he wasn't around during that time.

  • That feeling when your grandma turns off Rugrats right when Chucky goes on.

  • We're going to maybe have some Rugrats do the whole thing.

  • Rugrat #2, Ike, showed up February 3, 2009.

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  • We had shows like Rugrats and and Doug and stuff like that.

  • So maybe they're doing a live action Rugrats movie with babies.

  • Reptar was the whole thing about like Rugrats that they were trying to do a the most important thing to them was Reptar.

  • Like when we did Rugrats, right, there was a baby deal and then there's an older deal, but he's still the same guy.

  • That's right, the Rugrats are here, Tommy Pickles and the crew.

  • In the popular show, the character Rugrat always finds himself in amusing adventures.

Compounds

little rugrat
  • Slang
1 8.2

A small child who makes trouble in a playful way

Surface Forms

Rugrat main

Morphology

Rugrat = rug + rat (semi-transparent) = rug + rat

The components 'rug' + 'rat' are visible and suggest a crawling child, but the slang meaning 'toddler' is informal and not strictly predictable for all learners.

Etymology

Rugrat comes from the two simple words rug and rat; imagine a small child crawling on a 'rug' like a playful little 'rat'. That's why Rugrat became a playful name for a toddler and the title of the cartoon about young children.