Billie
Americannoun
Usage
What does billie mean? There are any number of famous Billies out there—Billie Jean King, Billie Holiday, and Billie Eilish, to name a few. But when it isn't a name, billie can variously refer to a good friend, a policeman's nightstick, money, or a pipe or bong for smoking marijuana.
Example Sentences
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He wanted to take a crack at writing like artists like Billie Eilish, but he couldn’t make heads or tails of it.
From Salon
“I really studied what’s going on out there — artists like Billie Eilish. I tried to write like her but I just couldn’t because I’m used to verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, ending — but pop music now just sounds like run-on sentences,” he said.
From Salon
The show also nods to Billie Eilish via the Billie Eilish Boomerang Idol featured in the season premiere.
From Los Angeles Times
In 2022, Billie Eilish stopped a headline show at London's O2 Arena to demand that security guards passed water to fans.
From BBC
The Great Depression spawned mass unemployment and economic hardship, but it was also the era of Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington, William Faulkner and John Steinbeck, “Gone With the Wind” and “The Wizard of Oz.”
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