party girl

American  

[pahr-tee gurl] / ˈpɑr ti ˌgɜrl /

noun

1. a girl or woman who is interested in little else besides attending parties.

2. a physically attractive young woman hired to attend parties and entertain men.

3. Slang. a prostitute, porn performer, or other sex worker.

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Etymology

Origin of party girl

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Octavia, in which a gushing party girl falls instantly in love with a blond, sharp-cheeked beau called Jeremy, later became an ITV series.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2025

Blurring those realms — which the original director, Harold Prince, had taken pains to keep separate — turned Sally, a Weimar party girl in Joe Masteroff’s book, into a neither-world negligee zombie.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2023

I certainly wasn't getting into the blue bloods group, and I wasn't a party girl.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2023

Viewers first meet Gies as an aimless party girl who is transformed into a resistance fighter after the Nazis invade.

From Seattle Times • May 1, 2023

“Breakfast at Tiffany’s” Audrey Hepburn is nothing but a party girl in Blake Edwards’ 1961 rom-com based on the Truman Capote novella.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2021