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supergirl

nounattested in dialogue

  • United States

A girl who is particularly successful, talented, or otherwise remarkable.

noun

  1. 1

    informalA girl who is particularly successful, talented, or otherwise remarkable.

    "A soda," Toria suggested. "Could I also have quarters for the video game?" Anya countered. "Okay, okay, but only if it's all right with your dad." Anya jumped up and down, tugging on Toria with supergirl strength. Nick put his hands on his hips.

    […] garrulous skull paperweight wresting the spotlight away from Ruby-Spears' flying cars, supergirls and sasquatches.

    And it ignores the privilege that helps only certain girls become supergirls and makes them suffer when they come close to achieving this status […]

    An average Chinese girl, with talent in singing, dancing, or acting, can be elected a supergirl by TV media outlets.

Etymology

From super- + girl. The DC Comics heroine Supergirl first appeared in May 1959.

Forms

plural
supergirls
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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).