Meaning of girl dinner | Babel Free

Definitions

A meal composed of many snacks prepared for one person, often using no dishes.

Internet, neologism, uncountable

Examples

“According to TikTok, where the trend has more than 30 million views, girl dinner is akin to an aesthetically pleasing Lunchable: an artfully arranged pile of snacks that, when consumed in high enough volume, constitutes a meal.[…]””

““Girl dinner can look⟳ like⟳ many things,” [Olivia Maher] says, depending on what your needs are and what you had earlier in the day, “But what matters is the feeling it evokes."[…]"”

“Though based on my thorough sampling of the trend, cold pork pies are tragically absent from girl dinner plates.[…]"”

“TikTok dwellers will recognise⟳ picky plates as an update⟳ on last⟳ year’s “girl dinner”, another social media trend denoting what is, politely, a random assortment of snacks (to which “dregs from the salad drawer” would also apply⟳).”

“Want⟳ to inject some chutzpah into your “girl dinner” for one or maybe you’re entertaining some like-minded fun-loving friends? Laetitia Rouget’s tableware features tongue-in-cheek statements like⟳ “Dodgy Business” or “Mussels from Brussels.””

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