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girlypop

/ˈɡɝliˌpɑp/

girlypop noun: pop music involving female singers, seen as being especially feminine or girly.

Noun

girlypop (countable and uncountable, plural girlypops)

  1. (derogatory, sometimes, uncountable) Pop music involving female singers, seen as being especially feminine or girly.
    • Something about those soft-yet-snappy Dutch accents that is just perfect for melodic girlypop.2001, Kim Cooper, David Smay, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears, Los Angeles, C.A.: Feral House, →ISBN, page 171
    • Amid the Spice Girl circus, new female artists who didn’t want to play corporate girlypop were sidelined.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
  2. (Internet, countable, endearing, humorous, usually) A female friend; a girlie (also used as a term of address).
    • Girlypop, I haven't seen you in so long!
    • woke up so sad for no reason until the girlypops texted. turns out we're all having an off day and now it's a girls day <3332020 October 15, @alexisscarrasco, Twitter

Adjective

girlypop (comparative more girlypop, superlative most girlypop)

  1. (Internet) Flamboyantly feminine.
    • But he was girlypop2022 August 20, u/Resaresaresa, “Transform of random townie..”, in Reddit, r/thesims
    • He's so girlypop2023 February 16, u/twentyhouse20, “Jaclyn Hill and Taylor Lautner??? (from T. Lautner's IG Story screen capped ~4:10 EST)”, in Reddit, r/BeautyGuruChatter
    Synonyms:
    zesty

Examples of girlypop in a sentence

  • Karis is one-third of new girlypop trio StooShe, whose first single is called Fuck Me.2011, “Lady Garden”, in Front Magazine, number 156, page 56:
  • "My intrusive thoughts won and I dyed my hair 🤠" girlypop if I acted on my intrusive thoughts I would be in prison2023 April 15, u/fluffpuffie, “yep...”, in Reddit, r/adhdmeme:
  • "Not another social media platform that I have to keep up with" ...uh, girlypop?2023 April 30, u/DifferentConcert6776, “Except you've already gotten lazy with it.”, in Reddit, r/brittanydawnsnark:
  • When TO1 returned, the three most girlypop members of the group had been abruptly replaced by new guys with a noticeably more masculine image :/2023 May 10, “230510 Cha Woongki has opened a personal Instagram account”, in Reddit, r/BoysPlanet:

Synonyms of girlypop

Forms of girlypop

Noun
pluralgirlypops
alternative formgirliepop
alternative formgirly pop
Adjective
comparativemore girlypop
superlativemost girlypop

Origin of girlypop

Compound of girly + pop (compare girlpop). The origin of the slang senses is uncertain, but the term was popularized in 2023 on TikTok.

Questions about girlypop

What does girlypop mean?
Girlypop means pop music involving female singers, seen as being especially feminine or girly.
How do you use girlypop in a sentence?
Karis is one-third of new girlypop trio StooShe, whose first single is called Fuck Me.
What part of speech is girlypop?
Girlypop can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce girlypop?
Girlypop is pronounced /ˈɡɝliˌpɑp/ (US).
What is the plural of girlypop?
The plural of girlypop is girlypops.

Words near girlypop in the dictionary

  1. girly push-ups
  2. girlygirl
  3. girlygirls
  4. girlyman
  5. girlymen
  6. girlypop
  7. girlypops
  8. girlz
  9. girlzine
  10. girlzines
  11. Girma

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: girlypop (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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