Meaning of mean girl | Babel Free

Definitions

A girl who tries to elevate her social status through bullying, especially at a high school.

informal

Examples

“Before you know it, they're off to junior high. At this point, you start to kind of remember things from the times when you were there, especially the mean girl stuff.”

“When mean girls are protagonists, unlikability is used to provide complexity to their narration that reminds us of mean girl as person.”

“African American mean girls include Davida Williams as Claire in Lizzie McGuire, Taveeta Szymanowicz as Valerie in Make It Pop, LaTangela as Maritza in Taina, and Shanica Knowles as Amber in Hannah Montana.”

“This dipping into and out of the worlds of Viennese composers and American mean girls was a roundabout way of discussing how the physician Ádám Politzer had the good fortune to learn medicine in Vienna during the Second Viennese School, amid all that creativity and learning and good music.”

CEFR level