Nah but seriously, I think the “rat” in mall rat means the same thing as in gym rat. A person who goes there a lot. Keeping in mind that Americans use the word mall for what many others would call a shopping centre. Google says
a young person who frequents shopping malls, usually for social purposes.
Then you can just have mall rat, gym rat and 2 other places people frequent like park rat or cinema rat or something. My complaint wa sjust that I have never heard of the term and don’t think it’s widely used.
Both of the two that they actually used are reasonably commonly used. Enough to have entries in dictionaries for them and movies named for them. The examples you gave are not ones I’ve ever heard, and I doubt they’re used.
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Nah but seriously, I think the “rat” in mall rat means the same thing as in gym rat. A person who goes there a lot. Keeping in mind that Americans use the word mall for what many others would call a shopping centre. Google says
Well I guess that makes sense.
but
Then you can just have mall rat, gym rat and 2 other places people frequent like park rat or cinema rat or something. My complaint wa sjust that I have never heard of the term and don’t think it’s widely used.
Both of the two that they actually used are reasonably commonly used. Enough to have entries in dictionaries for them and movies named for them. The examples you gave are not ones I’ve ever heard, and I doubt they’re used.
I mean yeah I was just pointing out I never heard of one of them.
Just curious, are you relatively young? I wonder if you never heard of it because malls are dying out so mall rats aren’t really a thing anymore.
I am 22 so mayhaps. But I am also not from the US and my langauge is not english so that also play a part in that.