Bond girl

Definitions

1. One of the beautiful, seductive young women who appear in James Bond movies.
2. A beautiful, seductive young woman.

Equivalents

Examples

“Sam scowled. 'I hate⟳ villains who call⟳ me Miss⟳ Jones,' she told him. 'It makes me feel⟳ like⟳ a Bond girl.'”

“When a lunch companion suggested that she might not want⟳ to take⟳ the Halle Berry route should she be nominated for an Oscar for "Monster," and win⟳ — soul-searching performance followed by a turn⟳ as a Bond girl — Theron threw her head back and howled.”

“[Xenia] Onatopp has been so deeply analysed, not just as a moment of Bond girl resurgence in the franchise – a move⟳ away from interchangeable damsels towards women who could crush⟳ you with their thighs, and whose only distress would be if they laddered their tights – but also for what, if any, statement it made about feminism as dominance, sadism as a baton passing from the male to the female.”

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