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good-time girl

good-time girl noun: a young woman who engages regularly in partying and romantic or sexual liaisons.

Noun

good-time girl (plural good-time girls)

  1. (euphemistic) A young woman who engages regularly in partying and romantic or sexual liaisons.
    • "I'm a good-time girl. Clothes, music, lights, dancing and liquor-what else is there when a girl is young?"1936 May 25, “Miscellany: Bouncer”, in Time
    • Virginia is a wild, promiscuous, good-time girl, but she's self-sufficient.1991 December 8, Maureen Dowd, “Bugsy in Love, on Stage and Off”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Jun 2011
    Synonyms:
    party girl
  2. (euphemistic) A female prostitute.
    • Just recently I found a story about a woman who was murdered in Niniltna back in 1915, a woman they called 'the Angel', one of the good-time girls who came up with the stampeders to mine the gold miners in the Yukon, and who came down to mine the copper miners along the Kanuyaq afterword.2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 104
    • We hadn't been out of the bar very long when a small, young Korean boy came up to us and wanted to know if we wanted good-time girls.2006, James R. Clark, American Soldier at 13 Yrs Old WWII, →ISBN, page 190
    Synonyms:
    party girl

Examples of good-time girl in a sentence

  • The incident is the latest in the singer's path from virginal role model to raunchy good-time girl.2004 January 5, David Teather, “Pop star thinks again after Las Vegas wedding”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 03 Jun 2011:
  • In The Loved One (1965) Lyn is lost amongst the myriad of starlets playing funeral parlor hostesses, cosmetologists, and scantily clad good-time girls.2013, Tom Lisanti, Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles, →ISBN, page 76:

Synonyms of good-time girl

Forms of good-time girl

pluralgood-time girls
alternative formgoodtime girl
alternative formgood time girl

Questions about good-time girl

What does good-time girl mean?
Good-time girl means a young woman who engages regularly in partying and romantic or sexual liaisons.
How do you use good-time girl in a sentence?
The incident is the latest in the singer's path from virginal role model to raunchy good-time girl.
What part of speech is good-time girl?
Good-time girl is a noun.
What is the plural of good-time girl?
The plural of good-time girl is good-time girls.

Words near good-time girl in the dictionary

  1. good-temperedness
  2. good-time
  3. good-time Charley
  4. good-time Charlie
  5. good-time Charlies
  6. good-time girl
  7. good-time girls
  8. good-timer
  9. good-timers
  10. good-will
  11. Goodacre

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