good-time girl
See also: good time girl and goodtime girl
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Noun edit
good-time girl (plural good-time girls)
- (euphemistic) A young woman who engages regularly in partying and romantic or sexual liaisons.
- 1936 May 25, “Miscellany: Bouncer”, in Time:
- "I'm a good-time girl. Clothes, music, lights, dancing and liquor-what else is there when a girl is young?"
- 1991 December 8, Maureen Dowd, “Bugsy in Love, on Stage and Off”, in New York Times, retrieved 3 June 2011:
- Virginia is a wild, promiscuous, good-time girl, but she's self-sufficient.
- 2004 January 5, David Teather, “Pop star thinks again after Las Vegas wedding”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 3 June 2011:
- The incident is the latest in the singer's path from virginal role model to raunchy good-time girl.
- (euphemistic) A prostitute.
- 2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 104:
- Just recently I found a story about a woman who was murdered in Niniltna back in 1915, a woman they called 'the Angel', one of the good-time girls who came up with the stampeders to mine the gold miners in the Yukon, and who came down to mine the copper miners along the Kanuyaq afterword.
- 2006, James R. Clark, American Soldier at 13 Yrs Old WWII, →ISBN, page 190:
- We hadn't been out of the bar very long when a small, young Korean boy came up to us and wanted to know if we wanted good-time girls.
- 2013, Tom Lisanti, Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles, →ISBN, page 76:
- In The Loved One (1965) Lyn is lost amongst the myriad of starlets playing funeral parlor hostesses, cosmetologists, and scantily clad good-time girls.
Usage notes edit
- Usually used as an expression of disapproval.
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References edit
- “good-time girl”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.