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B-girl
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b-girl
English
Alternative forms
en b-girl BGirl bgirl
Pronunciation
en En-au-B-girl.ogg AU
Etymology 1
Abbreviation of en bargirl.
Noun
en US slang A bargirl.
en B-drinker
1981 55 Clearing his throat, Patrolman Mancuso stood before his sergeant and said, “I got a lead on a place where they got B-girls.”
en 1996 Russell Means Where White Men Fear to Tread http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=Fk7jzBdB8MMC&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&sig=b4Kt78euQMQeHWpsA5wCnOeVsJc 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.
en 1997 Dan Wakefield; Sara Davidson Going All the Way http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=TLpV2M22PAIC&pg=PA286&lpg=PA286&sig=q-PAz6nqIiPYZ0BbK6ib_uLkduU 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
en break b(reak) + en girl, formed by analogy with en B-boy.
Noun
en slang A woman who performs breakdance; a female breaker.
en Sherril Dodds The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition 2018 Oxford University Press 421 https://books.google.com/books?id=KTpxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA421&dq=%22B-girls%22+b-boys&hl=en&cd=2&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22B-girls%22%20b-boys&f=false 978-0-19-063908-2 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.
en slang A female member of the hip-hop subculture.
Coordinate terms
en B-boy
en slang
en People