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girls' love

girls' love noun: a genre of Japanese media focusing on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.

Noun

girls' love (uncountable, abbreviation GL)

  1. A genre of Japanese media focusing on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.

Forms of girls' love

abbreviationGL

Origin of girls' love

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ガールズラブ (gāruzu rabu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from girls + love.

Questions about girls' love

What does girls' love mean?
Girls' love means a genre of Japanese media focusing on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.
What part of speech is girls' love?
Girls' love is a noun.

Words near girls' love in the dictionary

  1. girls Friday
  2. girls next door
  3. girls rented overnight
  4. girls with guns
  5. girls' girl
  6. girls' love
  7. girls' names
  8. girls' night out
  9. girls' room
  10. girls' rooms
  11. girlscout

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