playgirl

[pley-gurl]

noun

1. a woman who pursues a life of pleasure without responsibility or attachments, especially one who is of comfortable means.

Word History and Origins

Origin of playgirl¹

First recorded in 1930–35; play + girl

Example Sentences

The one thing I wish the people I love would band together and buy me this season: OK, so I don’t subscribe to holiday gift-giving, but I might accept two things and two things only: a Moog Etherwave theremin, and the August 1995 issue of Playgirl with the Peter Steele editorial.

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The SEC said the trust also owned other businesses, including Digi South, which “used to own Playgirl and other adult magazines.”

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He did not discuss his sexuality in interviews, but he proudly described being the July 1973 nude centerfold in Playgirl magazine in an interview with Esquire in 2017.

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Highsmith was something of a playgirl, Vitija finds, an assertion confirmed by several former girlfriends interviewed in the documentary who recall the novelist partying with David Bowie in Europe or outfitting herself in men's wear and grandly buying a round for the bar.

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A former Playgirl centerfold, he too battled addiction as well as depression.

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