English edit

Etymology edit

leather +‎ girl

Noun edit

leathergirl (plural leathergirls)

  1. A young leatherwoman.
    • 1997, Tony Strong, The poison tree, page 127:
      Dyke-U-Like was the most rampantly outrageous lesbian club in London, full of leathergirls and supermodels getting off together.
    • 2004, Judith A. Markowitz, The Gay Detective Novel, page 36:
      She's a feminist whose increasing involvement in the leathergirl scene puts her in direct conflict with her separatist friends.
    • 2008, John Caddy, With Mouths Open Wide, page 101:
      Just after the nocturnal exhibits / I come blinking and astonished upon “Tapir” / with an erection longer than his legs, / and hanging on the fence three punk leathergirls / in neon hair and safety pins, giggling / at his enormous member []