rink rat

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noun Canadian.

a youth who spends a great deal of time at a hockey rink, helping with maintenance work, sweeping, etc., often without pay or in return for free admission to the rink.

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Origin of rink rat

First recorded in 1940–45

Words nearby rink rat

ringwomb, Ringwood, ringworm, rink, rinkhals, rink rat, rinky-dink, rinky-tink, rinse, rinsin', rinsing

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How to use rink rat in a sentence

One rat had once fallen on his head, he said, during a rat raid of a local home.
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Since rat root comes from a plant that grows on the edge of the lake there are concerns that the plant is carrying toxins.
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Chief Adam offers us some of the local medicine called rat root.
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Her father was a war amputee on benefits; her mother a cashier at a skating rink.
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The episode includes satirical images of crime-ridden, rat-infested slums overrun by child-biting monkeys.
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Next morning Judy shouted that there was a rat in the nursery, and thus he forgot to tell her the wonderful news.
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He had repeated till he was thrice weary the statement that "the Cat lay on the Mat and the Rat came in."
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Growling horribly, the enraged brute seized poor Pearson and shook him as a terrier dog shakes a rat.
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I was here a little while ago and nobody answered my knock, though I could hear that typewriter going rat, tat, tat all the time.
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Rat this pawn of the Eye may have been, but even a cornered rat will fight with the courage of a lion.
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British Dictionary definitions for rink rat

rink rat

noun

Canadian informal a young person who carries out chores at an ice-hockey rink in return for free skating time

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