Green’s Dictionary of Slang

brat n.1

[SE brat, a child]

(US prison) the young partner of a prison homosexual.

[US]D. Clemmer Prison Community (1940) 330/2: brat, n. A boy used for sex purposes, a ‘punk.’.
[US]O. Ferguson ‘Vocab. for Lakes, [etc.]’ AS XIX:2 104: A boy who presents himself to the uses of buggery is a punk (common) or a brat (more special).
[US]T. Runyon In For Life 99: I’ve seen the patient papas carrying sacks of canteen stuff for their boys — also known as bronchos, gunsels, kazoonies, kids, brats, and, mostly, punks.
[US]Ragen & Finston World’s Toughest Prison 792: brat – A passive sex pervert.
[US]B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular.
[US]Bentley & Corbett Prison Sl. 58: Chicken A young, pretty homosexual. Although any young, pretty homosexual is considered a chicken, it is used more often in reference to blond ones. (Archaic: brat).

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