brat

1. (slang) A human child.Examples: ""So... you want to have kids someday?" "Uh... well, yes. I always figured I'd have a couple brats of my own someday..." "That's still doable, you know." "I know, but the process is a lot more complicated and less intimate, and --""Synonyms: bairn, brat, child, chit, crumb cruncher, crumb crusher, crumb grinder, crumb snatchercountableslanguncountable

2. (slang) A human child.Examples: "a spoiled brat"; "Get that little brat away from me!"; "He would never speak a word, - only eat and cry, and she hadn't the heart to strike it or illtreat the youngster either; but somebody taught her a charm to make him speak, and then she found out what kind of a brat he really was."Synonyms: bairn, brat, child, chit, crumb cruncher, crumb crusher, crumb grinder, crumb snatchercountablederogatoryslanguncountable

3. (slang) A human child.Examples: "Here are the people and the styles at the DNC that embodied the brat ethos."; "Brat is being lazy until 10 P.M., at which point you construct a château using discarded scraps of pleather, finish it by morning, and immediately win the Pritzker Architecture Prize."; "My favorite touch is how each of her Nike shoes has its own little bow, which is just the perfect amount of brat."Synonyms: bairn, brat, child, chit, crumb cruncher, crumb crusher, crumb grinder, crumb snatcherneologismslanguncountable

4. (slang) A human child.Examples: "an army brat"; "Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt, Commander of the Fourth Army, was an army “brat,” which means his father was an army officer. But he went into the army from Princeton, not from West Point."Synonyms: bairn, brat, child, chit, crumb cruncher, crumb crusher, crumb grinder, crumb snatchercountableslanguncountable

5. (slang) A human child.Synonyms: bairn, brat, child, chit, crumb cruncher, crumb crusher, crumb grinder, crumb snatchercountableslanguncountable

6. (historical) A rough cloak or ragged garment.Examples: "The chief's daughter wears a brat and léine girdled with a criss."; "The prevailing style of dress in the early medieval period comprised a léine (tunic) worn under a brat (cloak)."; "Women wore loose, flowing, ankle-length robes modelled on 11th-century European fashion (derived from what O'Neill called the léine) and, perhaps, a brat over these."countablehistoricaluncountable