pick-me girl

English

Alternative forms

• pick me girl, pick me, pickmeisha

Etymology

From the phrase pick me + girl, the implication being that such women, like someone pleading "pick me!", are desperate to be chosen over their putative competition.

Pronunciation

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Noun

pick-me girl (plural pick-me girls)

1. (originally African-American Vernacular, derogatory) A woman who asserts that she is unlike (and sometimes better than) most other women, in order to gain attention, approval, or validation from men.

   Synonyms: NLOG, pick-me

   Coordinate term: pick-me boy

   • 2013, Stephen Hayes, Rock Haulter, eBookIt.com, →ISBN:

     Perhaps that's why Daniel saw her past the rest of the “pick me” girls.

   • 2020, Suzanne Daniel, A Girl in Three Parts, Knopf Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 55:

     She kept changing her mind about which pick-me girl it would be from the Popular Group who would get to share her tent.

   • 2022 February 4, Marie Le Conte, “Feminism has been reduced to the transgender debate”, in The New Statesman:

     I have been called a handmaiden, a “pick me” girl, and been accused of vying for male attention.

See also

• Karen
• simp