superbrat

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Derogatory; Informal

"...McEnroe's behavior was so outrageous that the British press dubbed him Superbrat and went at him en masse."
"How, she asked herself, could a mature man of such enormous talent sink to the level of behaving like a superbrat?"
"In the off-season, the Cardinals looked on like envious children as the superbrats made the multimillion-dollar moves that still define the game..."

From super- + brat. The term came into popular usage around 1979 when the British press branded the young American tennis star John McEnroe "Superbrat", referring to McEnroe's angry responses when a line call went against him.

superbrats (plural)

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