Bond girl

plural Bond girls

1. fictionOne of the beautiful, seductive young women who appear in James Bond movies.

   Sam scowled. 'I hate villains who call me Miss Jones,' she told him. 'It makes me feel like a Bond girl.'

   1998, Justin Richards, chapter 12, in Option Lock, page 232

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   When a lunch companion suggested that she might not want to take the Halle Berry route should she be nominated for an Oscar for "Monster," and win — soul-searching performance followed by a turn as a Bond girl — Theron threw her head back and howled.

   2004 February 2, The New Yorker

   [Xenia] Onatopp has been so deeply analysed, not just as a moment of Bond girl resurgence in the franchise – a move away from interchangeable damsels towards women who could crush you with their thighs, and whose only distress would be if they laddered their tights – but also for what, if any, statement it made about feminism as dominance, sadism as a baton passing from the male to the female.

   2025 November 5, Zoe Williams, “‘I thought ‘Bond girl’ was such a demeaning term’: Famke Janssen on acting, ambition and Woody Allen”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

2. transferred senseA beautiful, seductive young woman.