hoodrat

See also: hood rat

English

Etymology

From hood +‎ rat. See (slang) hood (“neighbourhood”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

hoodrat (plural hoodrats)

1. (slang) A sexually promiscuous girl.
   • Compton's Most Wanted - Hoodrat (song)
     
   • 2 Live Crew - Hoochie Mama (song)
     
   • The Hold Steady- Your Little Hoodrat Friend (song)
   • 2003, Alice Cepeda, Avelardo Valdez, “Risk Behaviors Among Young Mexican American Gang-Associated Females: Sexual Relations, Partying, Substance Use, and Crime”, in Journal of Adolescent Research 2003; 18; 90 DOI: 10.1177/0743558402238278, page 93:
   • The 40-Year-Old Virgin (film)- "So what you just got to do is just get you a bunch of these hood rats run through them, just knock them out. Boom, boom, boom. And once you've done slayed like of them hood rats now you ready to go up to the upper echelon type ho. You know what I mean?" Jay
   • Hood Rat-K'wan, K'wan Foye (book)- "a woman of questionable repute, one who has been known to "get around" in the 'hood."
2. (slang) Alternative spelling of hood rat

Usage notes

The term was largely used by hip-hop artists in the early 1990s.

Synonyms

• slut
• hoe

Anagrams

• arthood, rathood