Usually means: Spoiled, demanding child; often misbehaving.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. brat: Merriam-Webster
  2. brat, brat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brat, brat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Brat, brat: Wordnik
  7. brat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. BRAT, brat: Wiktionary
  9. brat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. brat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. brat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. brat: Dictionary.com
  13. brat: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. brat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. BRAT, Brat (digital network), Brat (disambiguation), Brat (film), Brat (video game), Brat, The Brat (punk band), The Brat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Brat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. brat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. brat: Rhymezone
  19. Brat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. brat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Brat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. brat: FreeDictionary.org
  23. brat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Brat: The Word Detective
  25. brat: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. brat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. brat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BRAT: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. brat, brat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Brat: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. The Brat: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (slang) A human child.
noun:  (derogatory) A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish.
noun:  (uncountable, neologism) The qualities possessed by a confident and assertive woman.
noun:  (slang) A child (at any age) of an active member of the military or the diplomatic service.
noun:  (BDSM) A submissive partner who is disobedient and unruly.
noun:  A turbot or flatfish.
noun:  (historical) A rough cloak or ragged garment.
noun:  (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
noun:  (obsolete) The young of an animal.
verb:  (BDSM, intransitive) To act in a bratty manner as the submissive.
adjective:  (neologism) Characteristic of a confident and assertive woman.
noun:  (informal, Upper Midwestern US) Bratwurst.
noun:  (mining) A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.
noun:  Initialism of bananas, rice, apple sauce, toast: the basis of a diet formerly recommended for an upset stomach.

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