skirt
- noun
- /skɜrt/
- Slur
- You ought to lay off the skirts.
- skirt-chasing
- skirt-chaser
- chasing skirts
That's, you know, my my recipe for manhood, for my lineage was you got to drink, fight and chase skirt.
- That's, you know, my my recipe for manhood, for my lineage was you got to drink, fight and chase skirt.
Examples
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Mother of God, you'll have men crawling under your skirt all night!
Fiction book (1992) -
In the meeting, he dismissed her ideas as if she were just another skirt in the room.
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Is that your most serious skirt, Jones?
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"Do you think you might use a girl in a short skirt with naked legs?"
Fiction book (1991) -
- Look at those skirts.
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Her hand constantly tugged her skirt over her knees as if afraid it was riding up.
Fiction book (1994) -
Short skirts equals talent.
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I can't believe he referred to her as just another skirt at the party.
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They joked that he was always surrounded by beautiful skirts, making it hard for him to focus.
Synonyms
A grown woman who meets and talks with other women
A female person in her teens or twenties
A young woman used informally to mean a girlfriend
A woman or girl said in a friendly, informal way
A young woman you call in a playful or affectionate way
An old informal word for a woman often used in films
A girl or young woman
Antonyms
Idioms
- Offensive
Try to have romantic or sexual relationships with many women, often not seriously
Compounds
- Archaic
A row of metal plates that hang below the waist to protect the hips and thighs
How Disrespectful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Skirt used as slang for a woman comes from naming people by the clothes they wear, since women often wore skirts. A helpful way to remember this is that it is an old and disrespectful use, because it reduces a person to what they wear.