Bart Simpson

noun

An unruly and disrespectful child who engages in pranks and irresponsible behavior.

Meanings

nounBart Simpson (plural Bart Simpsons)

plural Bart Simpsons

  1. colloquialAn unruly and disrespectful child who engages in pranks and irresponsible behavior.

    had a real Bart Simpson of a bloke in last night

    2024 August 10, vivalavisa_edfringe, Instagram
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    I was the Bart Simpson my finest or maybe not so finest moment was when me and a few friends put tanning cream on the bannister.

    2024 May 5, Strange_Syllabub_700, “Archived copy”, in reddit.com, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2026

    Why does Crested Butte's marketing department focus ad campaigns on NOT being Aspen or Vail and hire Olympic gold medalist Bill Johnson, the Bart Simpson of the skiing world, as ski ambassador?

    1991 Nov, Ski, volume 56, number 3, page 171

    A tabletop set with a 10-inch circular screen was available for $100 in the summer of 1948; by Christmas that year a 12-inch table model was being retailed at less than $100. (That sold my father. As the Bart Simpson of my day I clamored for a set like the family across the street in our home in the Philadelphia suburbs.)

    2008, Douglas Gomery, A history of broadcasting in the United States, Wiley, page 109

    Because accidents are an intrinsic part of the backward-running life even when you're not half-blind, and young Fisher so often sported a limp or a bump or a bandage, the other kids took to calling him Crip, short for Cripple. And precisely because it was not the sort of nickname one flashed in polite society —it was not Skip or Biff or Chip or Boomer —he wore the moniker with pride. In case it's not already apparent, Carl Fisher was the Bart Simpson of the Belle Epoque.

    2012, Charles Leerhsen, Blood and Smoke: A True Tale of Mystery, Mayhem and the Birth of the Indy 500, Simon & Shuster, page 112

Origin

From the fictional character Bart Simpson of the television show The Simpsons.

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APA

Bart Simpson. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bart%20Simpson

MLA

“Bart Simpson.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bart%20Simpson. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Bart Simpson,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bart%20Simpson.

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