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Charli xcx fans rejoice: ‘Brat’ chosen as Collins word of the year
A new definition of the word was sparked by the pop star’s summer album title, and made it a term that ‘resonated with people globally’, the dictionary says
Though Collins already defined “brat” as “someone, especially a child”, who “behaves badly or annoys you”, it has been selected as word of the year because of its new definition: “characterised by a confident, independent, and hedonistic attitude”. Completing the list are “anti-tourism” – the opposition of large-scale tourism – and “romantasy”, a steamy subgenre of fantasy that has become hugely popular in recent years via authors such as Sarah J Maas and Rebecca Yarros. Alex Beecroft, managing director of Collins, said that “while ‘supermajority’ does the heavy lifting in a year of political upheaval in the UK and around the world, the big disruptors in language have come from different sources.
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