valley girl

plural valley girls · alternative Valley girl · alternative Valley Girl · alternative valley-girl · alternative Val

1. USslangA girl or young woman from the San Fernando Valley, especially when stereotyped as superficial and material.

   2010, John C. Wells, accents map Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like.

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   She's a valley girl / In a clothing store / Okay, fine / Fer sure

   1982, Frank Zappa, Moon Zappa, “Valley Girl”, in Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch

   They were referring, of course, to that vast expanse of tract homes and backyard barbecues that is the San Fernando Valley. The valley, with its valley girls and mini-malls, never shared Los Angeles's cultural cachet.

   2002 April 20, Joseph Kahn, “San Fernando Valley Looks To a Life After Los Angeles”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

2. broadlyderogatoryoftenAny girl perceived to act or speak like a stereotypical valley girl.

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   Like the area in California that Miss Zappa has immortalized, it is a well-to-do, upper-middle-class community with enough boutiques, clothing shops, shoe shops, fur shops, jewelry shops and chocolatiers to fill several hours a week in the life of those most conspicuous of consumers, the Valley Girls of Long Island, who are sometimes referred to simply as Island Vals.

   1982 September 15, Ron Alexander, “They're Clothes Crazy, Fer Sure; Valley Girls aren't just in California”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

plural Valley Girls

1. Alternative letter-case form of valley girl.

   As entertainment continues to influence the development of language, maybe one day “Shatner commas” and their odd, purposeless positions will become mainstream and the fear of overusing commas will be “refudiated," just “like, like Valley Girls.”

   2012 October 4 (indicated as 2013), John Langan, “Four Bases for Revising Writing”, in Exploring Writing: Paragraphs and Essays (Connect Learn Succeed), 3rd edition, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, part 2 (Basic Principles of Effective Writing), page 142

1. Valspeak; the dialect of English stereotypically spoken by valley girls.

plural Valley girls

1. Alternative letter-case form of valley girl.