Barbie doll
Britishnoun
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a teenage doll with numerous sets of clothes and accessories
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slang a superficially attractive but insipid young woman
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As a young adult Barbie collector, I vividly remember seeing the first Bob Mackie Barbie doll in a print ad of Barbie Bazaar magazine in 1990.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Personally, like most of us, I can’t even afford an extra Barbie doll house, so to be fair, Newsom is right on that one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026
Famously, he set a Barbie doll on fire to protest Greta Gerwig’s movie portraying the doll as a woman with agency, rather than a passive plaything.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2025
This Barbie doll will come with a cane and dark glasses, and will feature textured clothing so children who are blind, or have low vision, can feel the outfits she's wearing.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2024
You’d almost never see anyone in the United States wearing clothes made of such cloth unless it was a high-society person or a Barbie doll.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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