B-girl

Pronunciation

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Noun slang

1. A woman who performs breakdance; a female breaker.

   slang

   • The younger b-boys and b-girls at Hip Opsession tend to ignore those spectators who do not seem to know or express the accepted codes and conventions of the scene. - 2018, Sherril Dodds, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition, Oxford University Press, page 421
2. A female member of the hip-hop subculture.

   slang

Noun US, slang

1. A bargirl.

   US, slang

   • Clearing his throat, Patrolman Mancuso stood before his sergeant and said, “I got a lead on a place where they got B-girls.” - 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 3, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), page 55
   • 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. - 1996, Russell Means, Where White Men Fear to Tread
   • 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. - 1997, Dan Wakefield, Sara Davidson, Going All the Way

   Synonyms: B-drinker