B-girl
See also: b-girl
English
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Etymology 1
Abbreviation of bargirl.
Noun
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- (USCategory:American English#BGIRL, slangCategory:English slang#BGIRL) A bargirl.
- Synonym: B-drinker
- 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 3, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN, page 55:
- Clearing his throat, Patrolman Mancuso stood before his sergeant and said, “I got a lead on a place where they got B-girls.”Category:English terms with quotations#BGIRL
- 1996, Russell Means, Where White Men Fear to Tread:
- The bar was a rough, tough frontier place with B-girls drinking colored water at premium whiskey prices, bought by horny guys who thought they were going to get laid but were only going to get screwed.Category:English terms with quotations#BGIRL
- 1997, Dan Wakefield, Sara Davidson, Going All the Way:
- What’s really sick, if you ask me, is the B-girl shit where you pay all that money for just looking and thinking about it, but not really doing it.Category:English terms with quotations#BGIRL
Etymology 2
b(reak) + girl, formed by analogy with B-boy.
Noun
B-girl (plural B-girls)Category:English lemmas#BGIRLCategory:English nouns#BGIRLCategory:English countable nouns#BGIRLCategory:English multiword terms#BGIRLCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BGIRLCategory:Pages with entries#B-GIRLCategory:Pages with 1 entry#B-GIRL
- (slangCategory:English slang#BGIRL) A woman who performs breakdance; a female breaker.
- 2018, Sherril Dodds, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 421:
- The younger b-boys and b-girls at Hip Opsession tend to ignore those spectators who do not seem to know or express the accepted codes and conventions of the scene.Category:English terms with quotations#BGIRL
- (slangCategory:English slang#BGIRL) A female member of the hip-hop subculture.
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