mall rat

mall rat
n.
Slang a young person who loiters about shopping malls

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  • mall rat — n. Slang a young person who loiters about shopping malls …   English World dictionary

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  • mall rat — mall rats N COUNT (disapproval) Mall rats are young people who spend a lot of time hanging around in shopping malls with their friends. [AM] Thus, teenagers become mall rats, hanging out but rarely shopping in those megamalls …   English dictionary

  • mall rat — noun Someone who frequently loiters in a shopping mall …   Wiktionary

  • mall\ rat — Anyone who dresses as gothy as possible and wanders around malls annoying shoppers by escalators. Goddamn mall rats! I m too tired to climb the escalator …   Dictionary of american slang

  • mall\ rat — Anyone who dresses as gothy as possible and wanders around malls annoying shoppers by escalators. Goddamn mall rats! I m too tired to climb the escalator …   Dictionary of american slang

  • mall rat — n American a (usually female) teenager who hangs around shopping malls in order to meet friends, misbehave and/or otherwise have a good time . A phenomenon and expression in existence since the early 1980s …   Contemporary slang

  • mall — (n.) 1737, shaded walk serving as a promenade, generalized from The Mall, name of a broad, tree lined promenade in St. James s Park, London (so called from 1670s, earlier Maill, 1640s), which was so called because it formerly was an open alley… …   Etymology dictionary

  • rat — ► NOUN 1) a large, long tailed rodent, typically considered a serious pest. 2) informal a despicable person. 3) informal an informer. 4) N. Amer. a person who is associated with or frequents a specified place: a mall rat. ► EXCLAMATION (rats)… …   English terms dictionary

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