kogal

plural kogals

1. uncountableA subculture of conspicuous consumption among young women in urban Japan, typified by dyed hair, artificial suntan, platform boots, miniskirts, and expensive accessories.

   Kogal tackiness was egalitarian, and contrasted with the cute and conservative styles […]

   2004, Gordon Mathews, Bruce White, Japan's Changing Generations

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   If not exactly respectable, kogal culture is not condemned anything like as harshly as manifestations of pedophilia would be elsewhere […]

   2003, Philip Jenkins, Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography on the Internet

2. countableA member of this subculture.

   Runa is a gyaru (gal), particularly a kogal and one of the popular girls in school.

   2023 March 16, Brandon Lyttle, “Our Dating Story: The Experienced You and The Inexperienced Me premieres this year”, in Niche Gamer, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2023

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   Because of the links drawn between kogals and enjo kosai ("compensated dating"), in which women and girls are paid for dates and sometimes sex […]

   2006, David Richard Leheny, Think Global, Fear Local