pick-me girl

pick-me girl

English

Etymology

From the phrase pick me + girl.

Noun

pick-me girl (plural pick-me girls)

1. (slang, derogatory, rare) A woman who claims or acts as if she is unlike most other women, in order to gain attention from men.
   • 2013, Stephen Hayes, Rock Haulter, eBookIt.com (→ISBN)

     Perhaps that's why Daniel saw her past the rest of the “pick me” girls.

   • 2020, Suzanne Daniel, A Girl in Three Parts, Knopf Books for Young Readers (→ISBN), page 55:

     She kept changing her mind about which pick-me girl it would be from the Popular Group who would get to share her tent.

Hypernyms

• Karen (woman with an exaggerated sense of entitlement)
• internalized misogynist