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单词 good-time girl
释义

good-time girl

See also: good time girl and goodtime girl

English

Alternative forms

  • goodtime girl, good time girl

Noun

good-time girl (plural good-time girls)

  1. (euphemistic) A young woman who engages regularly in partying and romantic or sexual liaisons.
    • 1936 May 25, "Miscellany: Bouncer," Time:
      "I'm a good-time girl. Clothes, music, lights, dancing and liquor-what else is there when a girl is young?"
    • 1991 Dec. 8, Maureen Dowd, "Bugsy in Love, on Stage and Off," New York Times (Retrieved 3 June 2011):
      Virginia is a wild, promiscuous, good-time girl, but she's self-sufficient.
    • 2004 Jan. 5, David Teather, "Pop star thinks again after Las Vegas wedding," Guardian (UK) (Retrieved 3 June 2011):
      The incident is the latest in the singer's path from virginal role model to raunchy good-time girl.
  2. (euphemistic) A prostitute.
    • 2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 104:
      Just recently I found a story about a woman who was murdered in Niniltna back in 1915, a woman they called 'the Angel', one of the good-time girls who came up with the stampeders to mine the gold miners in the Yukon, and who came down to mine the copper miners along the Kanuyaq afterword.
    • 2006, James R. Clark, American Soldier at 13 Yrs Old WWII, →ISBN, page 190:
      We hadn't been out of the bar very long when a small, young Korean boy came up to us and wanted to know if we wanted good-time girls.
    • 2013, Tom Lisanti, Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles, →ISBN, page 76:
      In The Loved One (1965) Lyn is lost amongst the myriad of starlets playing funeral parlor hostesses, cosmetologists, and scantily clad good-time girls.

Usage notes

  • Usually used as an expression of disapproval.
  • good-time Charlie

References

  • good-time girl at OneLook Dictionary Search
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