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Thelma and Louise

Thelma and Louise noun: a pair of freedom-seeking women who are close friends and are brash, strong, independent and feisty, and perhaps self-destructive.

Noun

Thelma and Louise (plural Thelma and Louises)

  1. A pair of freedom-seeking women who are close friends and are brash, strong, independent and feisty, and perhaps self-destructive.
    • the participants in Regina Regina were the 'Thelma and Louise of country music' in 19962006, Colin Larin, editor, The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Morricone, Ennio - Rich Kids, MUZE, page 837
    • Gloria Steinem... referred to herself and Kennedy as the "Thelma and Louise of the seventies".2006, Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975, University of Illinois Press, page 250

Examples of Thelma and Louise in a sentence

  • we are the Thelma and Louise of the west coast of Ireland2026, Marie Gleeson, Be Like the Sea: Life, Learnings and Leadership from an Irish Navy Captain, Gill Books:
  • How (and maybe why) the Thelma and Louise of capybaras made their daring Toronto escape2016 May 25, Toronto34, “How (and maybe why) the Thelma and Louise of capybaras made their daring Toronto escape”, in reddit.com, archived...

Forms of Thelma and Louise

pluralThelma and Louises

Origin of Thelma and Louise

From the eponymous heroines of the movie Thelma & Louise.

Questions about Thelma and Louise

What does Thelma and Louise mean?
Thelma and Louise means a pair of freedom-seeking women who are close friends and are brash, strong, independent and feisty, and perhaps self-destructive.
How do you use Thelma and Louise in a sentence?
we are the Thelma and Louise of the west coast of Ireland
What part of speech is Thelma and Louise?
Thelma and Louise is a noun.
What is the plural of Thelma and Louise?
The plural of Thelma and Louise is Thelma and Louises.

Words near Thelma and Louise in the dictionary

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  2. thelions
  3. thelitis
  4. thelium
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  6. Thelma and Louise
  7. thelmophagous
  8. thelodont
  9. thelodontid
  10. thelodontids
  11. thelodonts

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