bar girl

American  

noun

1. a barmaid.

2. B-girl.

3. a female prostitute who frequents bars in search of customers.

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bar girl British  

noun

1. an attractive girl employed by the management of a bar to befriend male customers and encourage them to buy drinks

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Etymology

Origin of bar girl

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

He played John, a marine who introduces the show’s doomed lovers — his sergeant friend and a Vietnamese bar girl — and later becomes an advocate for the abandoned children of American servicemen and local women.

From New York Times

Marine and a teenage bar girl in 1975 Vietnam share an ill-fated romance in this musical inspired by Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly.”

From Los Angeles Times

The colorful, 706-page book includes photographs of CIA officers, Hmong and Vietnamese soldiers, maps of bomb sites, and pictures of dead bodies and one nude Lao bar girl.

From Washington Times

It was only after joining the Navy, serving in the Mediterranean and the Far East, and training as an underwater demolition specialist that he enlarged his knowledge of sex under the guidance of bar girls.

From The New Yorker

The morality clauses come as a separate dispute shakes a San Francisco Richmond District parish, where the new priest recently announced he would bar girls from being altar servers.

From Los Angeles Times