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good-time girl en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (euphemistic) A young woman who engages regularly in partying and romantic or sexual liaisons.
    • "I'm a good-time girl. Clothes, music, lights, dancing and liquor-what else is there when a girl is young?" 1936 May 25, “Miscellany: Bouncer”, in Time:
    • Virginia is a wild, promiscuous, good-time girl, but she's self-sufficient. 1991 December 8, Maureen Dowd, “Bugsy in Love, on Stage and Off”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Jun 2011:
    • The incident is the latest in the singer's path from virginal role model to raunchy good-time girl. 2004 January 5, David Teather, “Pop star thinks again after Las Vegas wedding”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 03 Jun 2011:
  2. (euphemistic) A female prostitute.
    • In The Loved One (1965) Lyn is lost amongst the myriad of starlets playing funeral parlor hostesses, cosmetologists, and scantily clad good-time girls. 2013, Tom Lisanti, Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles, →ISBN, page 76:
    • Just recently I found a story about a woman who was murdered in Niniltna back in 1915, a woman they called 'the Angel', one of the good-time girls who came up with the stampeders to mine the gold miners in the Yukon, and who came down to mine the copper miners along the Kanuyaq afterword. 2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 104:
    • We hadn't been out of the bar very long when a small, young Korean boy came up to us and wanted to know if we wanted good-time girls. 2006, James R. Clark, American Soldier at 13 Yrs Old WWII, →ISBN, page 190:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
goodtime girl alternative lexicographic
good time girl alternative lexicographic
good-time girls Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

good-time Charlie · john

Hypernyms

good-timer

Synonyms

party girl · party girl