Collocations for "girl"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "girl" in context.
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girl
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [teenage, young, school, little] girl
- a [good, bad, naughty, nice, well-behaved] girl
- have been a [good, bad, naughty] girl!
- be a [good, big] girl [while I am gone, for the babysitter]
- a girl from [Minneapolis]
- (met) the girl of my dreams
- met a girl that I like
- a (classic) story of boy meets girl
- had a girl in every [port, village, town, outpost]
- [listen up, pay attention], boys and girls
- ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls
- when I was (still) just a girl
- no girls allowed!
- a school for girls
- (for both) girls and boys
- having the girls over for [cards, dinner, a movie night]
- a [father, mother] of two girls
- my two girls are at [school, kindergarten, university]
- the girl next door
- girl talk
- is in the girl scouts
- a girl's name
- a girls' school
- a girls-only [school, camp]
- the girls' [room, locker, changing room]
- a girls' night out
'girl' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Japanese
- act
- adorable
- anywhere
- approach
- attitude
- badly
- best
- birth
- birthday
- blind
- blond
- blonde
- blouse
- blow
- born
- bouncing
- boy
- bright
- brown
- brunette
- butter
- carpet
- carry
- charming
- check
- cheeky
- cheerful
- city
- cleaner
- clever
- confuse
- cripple
- cute
- daddy
- daft
- demon
- disabled
- doll
- door
- drama
- dress
- drip
- dumpling
- elder
- endearing
- expect
- experienced
- feisty
- fifteen