girlfriend
Americannoun
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a female friend with whom a man or boy is romantically or sexually involved; sweetheart
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any female friend
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Besides, it’ll trigger the “h” word from Clueless Girlfriend: hoax.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2024
For a long time, NSync’s single Girlfriend was “greyed out” on Spotify – with the label apparently unaware that the freely-available album version wasn’t the same as the hit remix with Nelly and the Neptunes.
From BBC • Aug. 24, 2024
The way Brandy Monk-Payton, an associate professor at Fordham University who specializes in race and representation in film and television describes the Disposable Black Girlfriend trope is similar to the former Black Best Friend trope.
From Salon • Sep. 25, 2023
Girlfriend a few feet away in a parked car.
From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022
If you were Boyfriend and Girlfriend, you did not visit each other's homes; you registered for after-school lessons, for French Club, for anything that could mean seeing each other outside school.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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