brat

What does brat mean?

Brat names a mood rather than a checklist: slightly messy, fond of parties, willing to say the dumb thing out loud and feel every feeling anyway. Charli XCX sketched the archetype that way herself, and the album made it aspirational without sanding off the flaws. To call something brat is to bless the imperfection.

Where does brat come from?

The album brat arrived in 2024 and brat summer took over: one shade of lime green on shirts, cans and nails, plus a lowercase font that made polish look suspicious. Collins Dictionary crowned brat its word of the year for 2024, one of the fastest trips from album title to common vocabulary in memory.

How to use brat

• She showed up in a lime green dress and every group chat agreed: very brat.
• It was a brat summer: messy, loud, and completely unapologetic.