hood rat

noun

1. slang,  a young promiscuous woman from an impoverished urban area

Word History and Origins

Origin of hood rat¹

C20: from _’hood ; influenced by _{mall rat}

Example Sentences

The piece emphasizes Chattah’s history of racially charged statements as disqualifying, including her comment that Black Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford “should be hanging from a f— crane,” along with calling various Black public figures derogatory names like “hood rat,” “ghetto,” and “monkey.”

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Defendants stepping forward in the case claim to have heard upper-level management at the California factory refer to workers as "monkey toes" and "hood rat," according to coverage by The Verge, and there are further claims that an area within the factory primarily manned by Black workers was referred to as the "porch monkey station."

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Several of the messages included racial and misogynistic slurs, with one person calling her a “ghetto hood rat” and adding they hoped she would “choke on a chicken bone.”

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Rogers recently came under fire after a local newspaper resurfaced his "offensive posts," including a 2014 post which said Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager killed by police in Ferguson, was doing "hood rat sh*t."

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“You played that ratchet hood rat role. You know how much publicity you ’bout to get from this?”

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