hot girl summer

plural hot girl summers

1. slangA seasonal mindset, usually of a woman, of unapologetic self-confidence, enjoyment and empowerment.

   And yes, in case you were wondering, you don’t have to be single to have a hot girl summer.

   2019 August 1, Connor Garel, “You Might Be Having A ‘Hot Girl Summer’ Without Even Knowing It”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 28 Sep 2021

   5 more examples

   “Soak all of this up because, after this, that’s it. Nigga, I done let you mess up two hot girl summers for me, back to back. That’s it,” I said in all honesty.

   2019, Diamond Johnson, Down With the King of the South 4, Leo Sullivan, →ISBN

   The Thomas’ had seen me through thick and thicker, through years of hot girl summers, through long and short bouts of dating.

   2019, DL White, The Kwanzaa Brunch (The Holiday Shorts; 3), →ISBN

   The range of what can be considered having a hot girl summer is wide. Posting a glamorous picture of yourself in your best bathing suit? That’s living out hot girl summer.

   2019 July 19, Carlos De Loera, “The ‘hot girl summer’ meme, explained”, in Los Angeles Times

   Girls like us / who are the hot girl summers / dreaming of the day we can bathe on beaches / unbothered / free to re-enact our own episodes of Baywatch / replace the convention of Pamela Anderson with

   2021, Reece Lyons, “#GirlsLikeUs”, in Everything is Going to be All Right: Poems for When You Really Need Them, Trapeze, →ISBN

   I think everybody’s lives can be a bit messy at times. Some people get hot-girl summers, I have hot-mess-girl summers. It, too, shall pass.

   2022, Alexa Martin, Better than Fiction, Berkley Romance, →ISBN, page 115