girl

1. (sometimes offensive, see usage note) A woman, especially a young and often attractive woman.Examples: "He has a crush on a girl at work. We were kidding with him yesterday about his work crush."countableoffensivesometimesuncountable

2. (colloquial) A term of address to a female (see usage notes)Examples: "Hey, girl, I haven't seen you since last week! Where you been?"; ""My dear girl, what has he done?" said Mrs. Mallowe, sweetly. It is noticeable that ladies of a certain age call each other "dear girl," just as commissioners of twenty-eight years' standing address their equals in the Civil List as "my boy.""; "'Now, girls,' continued Healey, 'you're very high-spirited and that's as it should be but I won't have you getting out of hand.[…]' […] Setting a spatted foot on the bench that ran down the middle of the changing-room with elegant distain, Adrian began to flip through a pile of Y-fronts and rugger shorts with his cane."Synonyms: girlie, lass, lassiecolloquialcountableuncountable

3. (especially with a possessive) A female friend.countableespeciallyuncountable

4. (somewhat childish) (as a modifier) A female (tree, gene, etc).Examples: "Are you getting a boy cat or a girl cat?"; "Are there “boy” trees and “girl” trees? Yes. A number of species, among them the yew, holly and date-bearing palm, have their male and female flowers on different trees. The male holly, for instance, must be planted fairly close to the female ..."; "Of the 100 percent total, 25 will have two girl genes, 50 will have one boy and one girl gene, and 25 will have two boy genes."childishcountableuncountable

5. (informal) A machine or vehicle, especially one that the speaker uses often and is fond of.Examples: "The old girl ain't as pretty as she once was, but she still purrs like a kitten and still gets out of her own way!"; "Daly came, delved into the old girl's inner works, and had her working in jig time."; "“Quiet, everyone!” said Dad as he tried desperately to start the car. GRRR… GRRR… GRRR… Instead of shuddering into life, Queenie let out a low, grinding noise. “Oh no,” said Dad. “What?” asked the boy. “The engine must have flooded when she went upside down. The poor old girl won’t start again now for hours. We’re going to have to walk.”"countableinformaluncountable

6. (US, slang, uncountable) Cocaine, especially in powder form.Examples: "He's the sort of lowlife who snorts coke and refers to it as his girl."; "She had taught me to snort girl, and almost always when I came to her pad, there would be thin sparkling rows of crystal cocaine on the glass top of the cocktail table."; "Elijah nodded congenially to the early evening regulars in the Afro Lounge, headed straight for the telephone hung midway between the mens and womens, his nose smarting from a couple thick lines of recently snorted girl."Synonyms: benzoylmethylecgonine, blow, Bolivian marching powder, booger sugar, boots, California corn flakes, charlie, chingUSslanguncountable