"grrl" meaning in English

See grrl in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: grrls [plural], grrlz [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|+|grrlz}} grrl (plural grrls or grrlz)
  1. Alternative form of grrrl Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: grrrl
    Sense id: en-grrl-en-noun-qa0p90qV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for grrl meaning in English (2.0kB)

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          "text": "You end up being a projection screen for everyone’s unfinished business: butches excluded because they were “too male identified”; women body-builders and transmen who started testosterone because they made the space unsafe with their “male energy”; leatherdykes because they were into “violence against women” and that made the vanilla grrlz “feel threatened”; lesbos because the straight women were sure they’d get jumped, and on and on and on.",
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          "ref": "2018, Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón, Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora, New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, page 24",
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