banjee girl

English

Noun

banjee girl (plural banjee girls)

  1. The feminine or female equivalent of a banjee boy; a term from ball culture for a woman who embodies a certain urban swagger
    • 1999, Kim Hastreiter, David Hershkovits, From AbFab to Zen: PAPER's Guide to Pop Culture, Distributed Art Publishers (DAP):
      […] banjee girls are the tough, gorgeous women of New York and L.A. whose style says "Don't mess with me." Their 14 kt. teeth, huge, gold "bamboo" ear-rings and giant medallions are but mere accents for their incredible curled […]
    • 2016 December 5, Denis Flannery, On Sibling Love, Queer Attachment and American Writing, Routledge, →ISBN:
      The appearance of the same coat on both the banjee 'boy' and 'girl' suggests a cross-gender, near-sibling transfer. And one of the features, for the MC, of a banjee girl is a near-maternal , sisterly care of her younger brother. In the outline of the identity category a banjee girl is known by her taking her little baby brother to school. Sibling love is a part of the gendering emotional […]
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