B-girl
- noun
- /ˈbiːˌɡɜrl/
- Archaic
- At the encouragement of the B-girls, targets invariably bought bottles of expensive champagne, rounds of excessively priced drinks, and heaps of fine Beluga caviar.
- arrangement with the B-girls
Examples
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Hired as B-girls, these women helped to make the bar more inviting and lively for customers.
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Many clubs employ B-girls to enhance the atmosphere and boost sales.
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But instead, the defendants were never charged with violating the B-girl statute.
Academic text (2018) -
They hired a number of young, attractive women, many of whom were foreign, known as "B-girls" (12) to help attract business.
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In total, an estimated ninety men were enticed out of more than $1,300,000 at the encouragement of the B-girls.
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The court acknowledged that the requested instruction, which was denied by the trial court, seemed to be a correct statement of the law because "failure to disclose the financial arrangement between the B-girls and the Bar" was not "in and of itself" sufficient to convict the defendants of wire fraud.
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Perhaps even more pertinent to the case at hand, the City of Miami likewise has its own ordinance restricting B-girl activity, which predates the Florida statute.
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In this case, since the defendants' misrepresentations regarded their arrangement with the B-girls, and those misrepresentations did not extend to either the price or quality of the goods sold to the victims, the court held the defendants had merely deceived and not defrauded.
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The bar was filled with friendly B-girls who encouraged men to order more drinks.
Synonyms
A woman who talks and spends time with men in a bar to get tips or drinks
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
B-girl comes from the letter B, short for 'bar', and it first named a woman hired to sit with customers and sell drinks; think 'bar girl' who encourages people to buy more. That's why a B-girl often means a woman who socialises in a bar to increase sales.