noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of Lolita
Sense “nymphet” after the novel's title character
Example Sentences
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“I remember the ‘Lolita’ audition, and it was like, ‘Will you slowly eat this apple?’
From Los Angeles Times
And a bit later on, it was all those babydoll Lolita symbols that kept shaping this kind of Barbie ideal that we grew up with.
From Los Angeles Times
The Gulfstream jet used by Trump is not the plane known as the “Lolita Express,” which Epstein reportedly used to traffic young girls to and from his private island.
From Salon
When Lolita came to Australia in 2022, she was fleeing an older man she'd been forced to marry as a child in Saudi Arabia.
From BBC
Lolita Banana: There is one elimination, I’m not going to say which one obviously, but I had to ask to see the video again.
From Los Angeles Times
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