b-girl

noun

A bargirl.

Meanings

b-girl1

nounb-girl (plural b-girls)

plural b-girls

  1. Alternative letter-case form of B-girl.

B-girl2

nounB-girl (plural B-girls)

plural B-girls · alternative b-girl · alternative BGirl · alternative bgirl

  1. USslangA bargirl.

    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), →ISBN, page 55
    2 more examples

    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

B-girl3

nounB-girl (plural B-girls)

plural B-girls · alternative b-girl · alternative BGirl · alternative bgirl

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

    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, →ISBN, page 421
  2. slangA female member of the hip-hop subculture.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA bargirl.

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More synonyms by meaning

nouna woman employed by a bar to act as a companion to men customers

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Broader
womanadult female

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

B-girl · noun

Abbreviation of bargirl.

Full word history & related roots →

B-girl · noun

b(reak) + girl, formed by analogy with B-boy.

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

b-girl. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/b-girl

MLA

“b-girl.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/b-girl. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “b-girl,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/b-girl.

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