B-girl
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Probably abbreviated from bar girl.
[edit] Noun
- A woman employed to talk to customers in a bar and encourage them to buy drinks.
- A female person who performs breakdance; a breaker
- A female member of the hip-hop subculture
- A Prostitute working out of a bar. Often used in Southeast Asia.
[edit] Quotations
- [1962] 1994: Annual Report of the Attorney General of the United States for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1962, in Crossing Over the Line, David J Langum [1]:
- The girls were recruited by the Sappersteins in Baltimore, allegedly for employment as B-Girls and strip dancers at the Club in Calumet City managed by Austrew. In fact, upon arrival in Calumet City it turned out that they were expected and encouraged to prostitute themselves, as well as to engage in activities for which they were ostensibly employed.
- 1996, Russell Means, Where White Men Fear to Tread [2]:
- The bar was a rough, tough frontier place with B-girls drinking colored water at premium whiskey prices, bought by horny guys who thought they were going to get laid but were only going to get screwed.
- 1997, Dan Wakefield and Sara Davidson, Going All the Way [3]:
- What’s really sick, if you ask me, is the B-girl shit where you pay all that money for just looking and thinking about it, but not really doing it.
