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Brat summer may be over, according to Charli XCX, but the lingo’s legacy lives on.

Brat summer may be over, according to Charli XCX, but the lingo’s legacy lives on.

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When it comes to the word “brat”, you’d be forgiven for having a mental image of a screaming toddler banging his or her fists on the floor, mid-tantrum. 

So colour me surprised when, one day, a Slack message from a colleague and friend of mine, our senior columnist Lin Suling, popped up: 

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