"girl friend" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "girl friends",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "girl friend (plural girl friends)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1971, Frank A. Petroni, Ernest A. Hirsch, Two, four, six, eight, when you gonna integrate?, page 192",
          "text": "VELMA: My best girl friend is a Mexican girl. Every time I go up on the second floor where the Negroes hang out and I'm with this girl, they're always saying things like, \"Hey girl, you're out of your place with her.\" Well, I don't listen to them at all.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, Andre Dubus, Finding a Girl in America, page 157",
          "text": "He is not deeply worried about dope, because he trusts Sharon, knows she is sensible; that she tried cigarettes with her girl friends because at thirteen she wouldn't think of death […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Beatrice Labissiere, The Evil Land: Nehemiah",
          "text": "Then, the lady explained that her husband often talked to his girl friend about her.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female friend, especially a woman's."
      ],
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          "word": "girlfriend"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1958, DC Comics, Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane:",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, The Rosen Publishing Group, Guys: Being Best Friends",
          "text": "You may talk about different things with your girl friend than you do with your guy friends.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of girlfriend"
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          "girlfriend",
          "girlfriend#English"
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  "word": "girl friend"
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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "girl friends",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "girl friend (plural girl friends)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1971, Frank A. Petroni, Ernest A. Hirsch, Two, four, six, eight, when you gonna integrate?, page 192",
          "text": "VELMA: My best girl friend is a Mexican girl. Every time I go up on the second floor where the Negroes hang out and I'm with this girl, they're always saying things like, \"Hey girl, you're out of your place with her.\" Well, I don't listen to them at all.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, Andre Dubus, Finding a Girl in America, page 157",
          "text": "He is not deeply worried about dope, because he trusts Sharon, knows she is sensible; that she tried cigarettes with her girl friends because at thirteen she wouldn't think of death […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Beatrice Labissiere, The Evil Land: Nehemiah",
          "text": "Then, the lady explained that her husband often talked to his girl friend about her.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female friend, especially a woman's."
      ]
    },
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      "alt_of": [
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          "word": "girlfriend"
        }
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        {
          "text": "1958, DC Comics, Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, The Rosen Publishing Group, Guys: Being Best Friends",
          "text": "You may talk about different things with your girl friend than you do with your guy friends.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of girlfriend"
      ],
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          "girlfriend",
          "girlfriend#English"
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  "word": "girl friend"
}