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girlbossing

girlbossing is the present participle and gerund of girlboss.

Meaning of girlboss

Verb

girlboss (third-person singular simple present girlbosses, present participle girlbossing, simple past and past participle girlbossed)

  1. (intransitive) To behave or act as a girlboss.
    • The reality of girlbossing, however, was always a little bit messier. […] Girlbossing provided a tenuous bridge in the mid-2010s: on one end, the reality of social upheaval and stagnant wage growth that met young people in the job market after the Great Recession; on the other, the long-gone world...2020 June 25, Amanda Mull, “The Girlboss Has Left the Building”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2021

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Questions about girlbossing

What is girlbossing the present participle and gerund of?
Girlbossing is the present participle and gerund of girlboss.

Words near girlbossing in the dictionary

  1. girlbossification
  2. girlbossified
  3. girlbossifies
  4. girlbossify
  5. girlbossifying
  6. girlbossing
  7. girlbossism
  8. girlbossy
  9. girlboy
  10. girlboys
  11. girlbulge

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Adapted from Wiktionary: girlbossing (page history and authors); girlboss (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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