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valley-girl

valley-girl is the alternative form of valley girl.

Meaning of valley girl

Noun

valley girl (plural valley girls)

  1. (US, slang) A girl or young woman from the San Fernando Valley, especially when stereotyped as superficial and material.
    • She's a valley girl / In a clothing store / Okay, fine / Fer sure1982, Frank Zappa, Moon Zappa, “Valley Girl”, in Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
  2. (broadly, derogatory, often) Any girl perceived to act or speak like a stereotypical valley girl.
    • Like the area in California that Miss Zappa has immortalized, it is a well-to-do, upper-middle-class community with enough boutiques, clothing shops, shoe shops, fur shops, jewelry shops and chocolatiers to fill several hours a week in the life of those most conspicuous of consumers, the Valley...1982 September 15, Ron Alexander, “They're Clothes Crazy, Fer Sure; Valley Girls aren't just in California”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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Forms of valley-girl

pluralvalley-girls

Questions about valley-girl

What is valley-girl the alternative form of?
Valley-girl is the alternative form of valley girl.

Words near valley-girl in the dictionary

  1. Valley Stream
  2. Valley Township
  3. Valley View
  4. Valley Village
  5. Valley Wells
  6. valley-girl
  7. valley-girls
  8. valley-land
  9. valley-lands
  10. valleyed
  11. Valleyfield

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