rat pack
Americannoun
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a close-knit group of people with common interests who participate in various professional and recreational activities together.
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Chiefly British. journalists or photographers as a group in relentless pursuit of celebrities.
Example Sentences
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There was always a New York rat pack element to this administration, more social than partisan.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2017
Neither does he fall easily into a literary rat pack.
From The Guardian • Aug. 21, 2015
Ol' Blue Eyes was back in 2006, when West End show Sinatra at the London Palladium used cutting-edge technology to bring the rat pack singer to life on stage.
From BBC • Jun. 23, 2015
Mr. Tisci has dressed Ms. Welch for the Grammys and the Met Gala, and made her part of his celebrity rat pack along with Kanye West and Liv Tyler.
From New York Times • May 22, 2015
This large, chastely furnished library, in a town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side, was where the callow preppies of "Sally Fowler's rat pack" were filmed during their postdance gabfests.
From Time Magazine Archive
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