girl next door

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girl next door (plural girls next door)

  1. A regular, typical girl, as opposed to a superstar.
    Coordinate term: boy next door
    He didn't want to marry a girl next door; he hankered for the big city.
    • 1983, Teresa Carpenter, Bob Fosse, Star 80, spoken by Dorothy Stratten:
      Playboy's motto is: the girl next door. They look for girls that are wholesome and fresh and young and naive. They look for all of that.
    • 2014, Paul Chrystal, Tea: A Very British Beverage:
      The Nippy became a national icon, symbolic of the girl next door, always approachable and proper; []

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