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girlpop

girlpop noun: pop music involving female singers, especially that which is marketed to young women.

Noun

girlpop (uncountable)

  1. Pop music involving female singers, especially that which is marketed to young women.
    • Encouraged by their success, they seemed to believe the monumental hype, that they were indeed the best band in the world, that they had, indeed, invented girlpop.2002, Lucy O'Brien, She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul, London; New York, N.Y.: Continuum, →ISBN, page 465
    • Google 'Trigger's Broom', and you'll probably also find a reference to fast-food girlpop band Sugababes on the same page.2012, Pete Brown, Shakespeare's Local: Six Centuries of History Seen Through One Extraordinary Pub, London: Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, page 52

Origin of girlpop

Compound of girl + pop; compare girlypop.

Questions about girlpop

What does girlpop mean?
Girlpop means pop music involving female singers, especially that which is marketed to young women.
What part of speech is girlpop?
Girlpop is a noun.

Words near girlpop in the dictionary

  1. girlmodes
  2. girlmoding
  3. girlness
  4. girlond
  5. girlonds
  6. girlpop
  7. girlproof
  8. girlpussies
  9. girlpussy
  10. girls
  11. girls and boys

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