valley girl

valley girl noun: a girl or young woman from the San Fernando Valley, especially when stereotyped as superficial and material.

Noun (1)

valley girl (plural valley girls)

(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
- They were referring, of course, to that vast expanse of tract homes and backyard barbecues that is the San Fernando Valley. The valley, with its valley girls and mini-malls, never shared Los Angeles's cultural cachet.2002 April 20, Joseph Kahn, “San Fernando Valley Looks To a Life After Los Angeles”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
(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

Valley Girl (plural Valley Girls)

Alternative letter-case form of valley girl.
- As entertainment continues to influence the development of language, maybe one day “Shatner commas” and their odd, purposeless positions will become mainstream and the fear of overusing commas will be “refudiated," just “like, like Valley Girls.”2012 October 4 (indicated as 2013), John Langan, “Four Bases for Revising Writing”, in Exploring Writing: Paragraphs and Essays (Connect Learn Succeed), 3rd edition, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill...

Valley Girl

Valley girl (plural Valley girls)

From Valley, short for San Fernando Valley. Popularized by the Frank/Moon Zappa song Valley Girl (1982).

What does valley girl mean?: Valley girl means a girl or young woman from the San Fernando Valley, especially when stereotyped as superficial and material.
What part of speech is valley girl?: Valley girl can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of valley girl?: The plural of valley girl is valley girls.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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