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B-girl en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Etymology

Abbreviation of bargirl.

Meanings

  1. (US, slang) A bargirl.
    • 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. 1996, Russell Means, Where White Men Fear to Tread:
    • Clearing his throat, Patrolman Mancuso stood before his sergeant and said, “I got a lead on a place where they got B-girls.” 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 3, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN, page 55:
    • 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. 1997, Dan Wakefield, Sara Davidson, Going All the Way:

Forms

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Synonyms

B-drinker

B-girl en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

Etymology

b(reak) + girl, formed by analogy with B-boy.

Meanings

  1. (slang) A woman who performs breakdance; a female breaker.
    • 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. 2018, Sherril Dodds, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 421:
  2. (slang) A female member of the hip-hop subculture.

Forms

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Coordinates

B-boy