hot girl summer

hot girl summer noun: a seasonal mindset, usually of a woman, of unapologetic self-confidence, enjoyment and empowerment.

Noun

hot girl summer (plural hot girl summers)

(slang) A seasonal mindset, usually of a woman, of unapologetic self-confidence, enjoyment and empowerment.
- “Soak all of this up because, after this, that’s it. Nigga, I done let you mess up two hot girl summers for me, back to back. That’s it,” I said in all honesty.2019, Diamond Johnson, Down With the King of the South 4, Leo Sullivan, →ISBN
- The Thomas’ had seen me through thick and thicker, through years of hot girl summers, through long and short bouts of dating.2019, DL White, The Kwanzaa Brunch (The Holiday Shorts; 3), →ISBN

The range of what can be considered having a hot girl summer is wide.2019 July 19, Carlos De Loera, “The ‘hot girl summer’ meme, explained”, in Los Angeles Times:
And yes, in case you were wondering, you don’t have to be single to have a hot girl summer.2019 August 1, Connor Garel, “You Might Be Having A ‘Hot Girl Summer’ Without Even Knowing It”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on...
Girls like us / who are the hot girl summers / dreaming of the day we can bathe on beaches / unbothered / free to re-enact our own episodes of Baywatch / replace the convention of Pamela Anderson with2021, Reece Lyons, “#GirlsLikeUs”, in Everything is Going to be All Right: Poems for When You Really Need Them, Trapeze, →ISBN:
“I’m in the middle of my hot girl summer, and I think it’s about time to add a cowboy to my list.”2022, Charles Lemar Brown, The Road to Nowhere, Broken L Press, →ISBN:

plural	hot girl summers

Popularized by Megan Thee Stallion's song "Hot Girl Summer", released on August 9, 2019.

What does hot girl summer mean?: Hot girl summer means a seasonal mindset, usually of a woman, of unapologetic self-confidence, enjoyment and empowerment.
How do you use hot girl summer in a sentence?: The range of what can be considered having a hot girl summer is wide.
What part of speech is hot girl summer?: Hot girl summer is a noun.
What is the plural of hot girl summer?: The plural of hot girl summer is hot girl summers.

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