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girl dinner

American  

[gurl din-er] / ˈgɜrl ˌdɪn ər /

noun

Informal.

1. an often attractively presented collection of snacks that involve little preparation, such as small quantities of cold cuts, cheese, fruit, cherry tomatoes, etc., and often including items of little nutritional value, deemed sufficient to constitute a meal for one: typically the fare of young single women with little time or inclination to cook.

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Etymology

Origin of girl dinner

First recorded in 2023

Example Sentences

“It’s about eating to please yourself,” Maher said of girl dinner, a term she’s currently trying to trademark.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Tinned fish was the epitome of "girl dinner" before girl dinner became a whole thing.

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2024

But Maher takes a more positive approach towards the term girl dinner.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023

So when a 34-year-old woman refers to herself as a girl or eating a girl dinner, it negates the idea that girlhood is merely a time when we stare shamefully at the mirror.

From Salon • Aug. 21, 2023

Irish girl, dinner; bakery,— street, bread; cracker bakery,——, street; house four doors from—— street, lady, lots to eat and money; sisters in——street, soup; hotel,——street, soup meat, 12.30 P.M.,' etc., etc.

From The Secrets of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney