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Connections #585 2025-01-16 (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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She's an Australian rapper

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.

[–] Wizard_Pope 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Wizard_Pope 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean yeah I was just pointing out I never heard of one of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Wizard_Pope 1 points 10 hours ago

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.

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