brat pack

noun

1. a successful, highly confident, and often close-knit group of famous young people, as actors.

Word History and Origins

Origin of brat pack¹

1985–90; modeled on rat pack ( def. )

Example Sentences

She and Ringwald will be the latest of the Brat Pack to join the Walk of Fame, following Rob Lowe in 2015.

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Brat summer might be over as we grapple with how dark it is at 16:00, but the concept of being a brat – “pack of cigs and a Bic lighter”, according to the singer Charli XCX – lives on.

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Foster’s theme from the Brat Pack classic was the rare instrumental track to crash the pop Top 20 in the 1980s.

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At the time, the stars who were considered a part of the Brat Pack were offended by the term, one that seemed dismissive of their work and painted them as careless and unprofessional.

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Some of these charismatic stars would come to be known as the Brat Pack, a term coined by the writer David Blum in a 1985 New York magazine article about the youth movie phenomenon.

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