Charli XCX attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the 'Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion' exhibition, May 6, 2024, in New York. 'Brat', the word redefined by the singer and adopted by supporters of US presidential candidate Kamala Harris, was on Friday named the Collins Word of the Year 2024. — Photo: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File
Brat, the word redefined by singer Charli XCX and adopted by supporters of US presidential candidate Kamala Harris, was on Friday named the Collins Word of the Year 2024.
Brat was the name of the UK singer's hit sixth album, and the word has now come to represent a "confident, independent, and hedonistic attitude", said Collins, rather than simply a term for a badly-behaved child.
