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Noun edit

KTV girl (plural KTV girls)

  1. An attractive young woman employed by a KTV bar to serve drinks and snacks and to sing along with male patrons.
    • 2010, Neil Humphreys, Match Fixer, →ISBN, page 131:
      The coffee shop had the usual post 2 a.m. crowd—some Indian cleaners having breakfast before going to work and a couple of KTV girls having supper with clients from the lounge across the road.
    • 2015, Fodor's Travel Guides, Fodor's China, →ISBN:
      This giant establishment is one of Shanghai's most popular Karaoke TV (KTV) bars, and among the few that are dedicated to KTV instead of KTV girls.
    • 2015, Jemimah Steinfeld, Little Emperors and Material Girls: Youth and Sex in Modern China, →ISBN, page 89:
      I spoke to Zheng about whether visiting KTV girls, those who work at the vast network of karaoke joints across China which are known to offer far more than a friendly singalong, is more stigmatised amongst the post-1980s generation compared to earlier generations.