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victory girl

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victory girl (plural victory girls)

  1. (historical) During World War II, a young woman who had sex with servicemen, ostensibly as a patriotic show of support.
    Synonym: V-girl
    • 1943, LIFE, volume 15, number 25, page 102:
      A Victory Girl, of course, is not just any young girl who is in love with a soldier or sailor. She is different from most girls in that she is promiscuous, careless, sometimes diseased — a sexual delinquent in the literal sense of the words.