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mean girl

noun

Etymology

Popularized by the 2004 teen comedy film Mean Girls.

Definitions

  1. A girl who tries to elevate her social status through bullying, especially at a high…

    A girl who tries to elevate her social status through bullying, especially at a high school.

    • Before you know it, they're off to junior high. At this point, you start to kind of remember things from the times when you were there, especially the mean girl stuff.
    • When mean girls are protagonists, unlikability is used to provide complexity to their narration that reminds us of mean girl as person.
    • African American mean girls include Davida Williams as Claire in Lizzie McGuire, Taveeta Szymanowicz as Valerie in Make It Pop, LaTangela as Maritza in Taina, and Shanica Knowles as Amber in Hannah Montana.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA