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sheila

nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈʃiːlə//

A woman.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA woman.

    ‘I didn’t like that sheila that tried to latch onto him, but.’

    He was a real gentleman and although he never asked any personal questions as to why ‘a couple of sheilas’ was hitch hiking to Perth, he said he was glad of the company.

    “[…]You know I counted no less than fifty-five sheilas out on the street today, all screaming when you guys played.”

    I definitely didn’t think about getting married. I was real scared of sheilas back then.

Etymology

From Sheila (“female given name”).

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of shaylaAlternative form of shayla.

    They sport short hair, no makeup, and do not wear a sheila.

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَيْلَاء (šaylāʔ).

Forms

plural
sheilas
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).