hot girl summer

English

Etymology

Popularized by Megan Thee Stallion.

Noun

hot girl summer (plural hot girl summers)

1. (slang) A summer when one is feeling and looking especially good.
   • 2019, Diamond Johnson, Down With the King of the South 4, Leo Sullivan, →ISBN:

     “Soak all of this up because, after this, that’s it. Nigga, I done let you mess up two hot girl summers for me, back to back. That’s it,” I said in all honesty.

   • 2019, DL White, The Kwanzaa Brunch (The Holiday Shorts; 3), →ISBN:

     The Thomas’ had seen me through thick and thicker, through years of hot girl summers, through long and short bouts of dating.

   • 2019 July 19, Carlos De Loera, “The ‘hot girl summer’ meme, explained”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[1]:

     The range of what can be considered having a hot girl summer is wide. Posting a glamorous picture of yourself in your best bathing suit? That’s living out hot girl summer.

   • 2019 August 1, Connor Garel, “You Might Be Having A ‘Hot Girl Summer’ Without Even Knowing It”, in HuffPost‎^[2], archived from the original on 28 September 2021:

     And yes, in case you were wondering, you don’t have to be single to have a hot girl summer.

   • 2021, Reece Lyons, “#GirlsLikeUs”, in Everything is Going to be All Right: Poems for When You Really Need Them, Trapeze, →ISBN:

     Girls like us / who are the hot girl summers / dreaming of the day we can bathe on beaches / unbothered / free to re-enact our own episodes of Baywatch / replace the convention of Pamela Anderson with

   • 2022, Alexa Martin, Better than Fiction, Berkley Romance, →ISBN, page 115:

     I think everybody’s lives can be a bit messy at times. Some people get hot-girl summers, I have hot-mess-girl summers. It, too, shall pass.

   • 2022, Nekotofu, translated by Devon Corwin, ONIMAI: I’m Now Your Sister!, volume 6, Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC, →ISBN, page 71:

     I WANNA HAVE MY HOT GIRL SUMMER!

   • 2022, Charles Lemar Brown, The Road to Nowhere, Broken L Press, →ISBN:

     “I’m in the middle of my hot girl summer, and I think it’s about time to add a cowboy to my list.”

   • 2023, Kennedy Fox, Evan & Emily (Bishop Family Origin; 2), →ISBN:

     Hadleigh told me that I should enjoy my hot girl summer and have fun being single for the first time in four years.

   • 2023, Sasha Kutabah Sarago, Gigorou: It’s Time to Reclaim Beauty. First Nations Wisdom and Womanhood., Pantera Press, →ISBN:

     In the ’90s, Hot Girl Summers were reserved for the light-skin gummas with green eyes.

   • 2023, Morgan Jane Mitchell, Valentine’s Eve (Royal Bastards MC: Nashville, TN):

     “You need to be wearing less and going out more. Young thing like you don’t need to be tied down right away, no way. Take it from someone over thirty-five. You don’t have many hot girl summers left.”

   • 2023 April 28, Rachel Barker, quoting Sarah, “We Spoke to People Who Got Back With Their Ex And Made it Work”, in Vice‎^[3], archived from the original on 28 April 2023:

     But also I definitely didn't want him to come… I was like, I want to go ahead with my hot girl summer and be single.

Further reading

• “hot girl summer”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “Hot Girl Summer”, in Know Your Meme, launched 2007