B-girl

See also: b-girl

English

Alternative forms

• b-girl

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

Abbreviation of bargirl.

Noun

B-girl (plural B-girls)

1. (US, slang) 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.”

   • 1996, Russell Means, Where White Men Fear to Tread‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 1997, Dan Wakefield, Sara Davidson, Going All the Way‎^[2]:

     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.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

B-girl (plural B-girls)

1. (slang) 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.

2. (slang) A female member of the hip-hop subculture.

Coordinate terms

• B-boy