cover girl
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- noun
- /ˈkʌvər ɡɜrl/
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- After winning the competition, she became the cover girl on the front of several popular magazines.
- cover girl for Vogue
- cover girl of Sports Illustrated
- cover girl for Cosmo
Examples
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At the New York premiere of the documentary Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 this past week, the gorgeous cover girl spoke to the New York Post about her Bond Girl ambitions, adding, "It's a very prestigious title and it would be a very cool role."
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But today she still has the same Sports Illustrated cover-girl body that she's always had.
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You should absolutely be their cover girl!
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And there are attractive women who would never be cover girls.
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Pose, like a cover girl for a magazine.
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You're looking good, cover girl.
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Kahlo will be a Vogue cover girl.
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I mean, so what if she's the, uh... sports illustrated swimsuit edition cover girl?
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In the March 2010 issue of Harper's Bazaar, Glenn O'Brien asks cover girl Kate Moss about her fashion design career.
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With her jaw-dropping good looks, sinuous curves, and cover girl charm, we couldn't think of a more suitable role for Kate's move to the silver screen.
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Synonyms
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A person who shows clothes or poses for photos
A picture of an attractive person or the person shown
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: a 'cover girl' is simply a girl who appears on a magazine cover, which a B1 learner who knows 'cover' (the front of a magazine) and 'girl' can infer. This noun–noun compound follows transparent productive patterns (and has parallels in other languages), so no idiomatic knowledge is required.
Etymology
The noun cover girl comes from magazines: a cover is the 'front cover' of a magazine and a girl is the woman shown there. So, a cover girl is a woman whose picture is on the magazine's front and who is seen as the main model.