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rink rat Slang

• a boy or young man who helps with the chores around a hockey rink, often in return for free skating, free admission to hockey games, etc.

  • 1957  [Headline] Rink Rats, Belles [a hockey team from Belleville] in Post-game Battle.
  • 1964  [Headline] Rink Rat Became Harvard Bookworm
  • 1965  I was a rink rat at the Forum [in Vancouver] in the days before the Zamboni (the motorized monster that cleans and resurfaces the ice between periods in hockey games).