valley girl

• Valley girl, Valley Girl, valley-girl, Val

From Valley, short for San Fernando Valley. Popularized by the Frank/Moon Zappa song Valley Girl (1982).

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valley girl (plural valley girls)

1. (US, slang) A girl or young woman from San Fernando Valley, especially when stereotyped as superficial and material.
   • 1982, Frank Zappa, Moon Zappa (lyrics and music), “Valley Girl”, in Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch:

     She's a valley girl / In a clothing store / Okay, fine / Fer sure

   • 2002 April 20, Joseph Kahn, “San Fernando Valley Looks To a Life After Los Angeles”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     They were referring, of course, to that vast expanse of tract homes and backyard barbecues that is the San Fernando Valley. The valley, with its valley girls and mini-malls, never shared Los Angeles's cultural cachet.

   • 2010, John C. Wells, accents map

     Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like.

2. (by extension, often derogatory) Any girl perceived to act or speak like a stereotypical valley girl.
   • 1982 September 15, Ron Alexander, “They're Clothes Crazy, Fer Sure; Valley Girls aren't just in California”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Like the area in California that Miss Zappa has immortalized, it is a well-to-do, upper-middle-class community with enough boutiques, clothing shops, shoe shops, fur shops, jewelry shops and chocolatiers to fill several hours a week in the life of those most conspicuous of consumers, the Valley Girls of Long Island, who are sometimes referred to simply as Island Vals.

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