Bond girl

English

Etymology

From James Bond +‎ girl.

Noun

Bond girl (plural Bond girls)

  1. (fiction) One of the beautiful, seductive young women who appear in James Bond movies.
    • 1998, Justin Richards, chapter 12, in Option Lock, page 232:
      Sam scowled. 'I hate villains who call me Miss Jones,' she told him. 'It makes me feel like a Bond girl.'
    • 2004 February 2, The New Yorker:
      When a lunch companion suggested that she might not want to take the Halle Berry route should she be nominated for an Oscar for "Monster," and win — soul-searching performance followed by a turn as a Bond girl — Theron threw her head back and howled.
    • 2025 November 5, Zoe Williams, “‘I thought ‘Bond girl’ was such a demeaning term’: Famke Janssen on acting, ambition and Woody Allen”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      [Xenia] Onatopp has been so deeply analysed, not just as a moment of Bond girl resurgence in the franchise – a move away from interchangeable damsels towards women who could crush you with their thighs, and whose only distress would be if they laddered their tights – but also for what, if any, statement it made about feminism as dominance, sadism as a baton passing from the male to the female.
  2. (transferred sense) A beautiful, seductive young woman.

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