chill girl

English

Etymology

chill (“easygoing”) + girl.

Pronunciation

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Noun

chill girl (plural chill girls)

1. (slang) A girlfriend considered by her boyfriend to be self-sufficient, "low-maintenance" and "chilled out".
   • 2014 October 19, Anna Breslaw, “What Happens When the Chill Girl Falls in Love”, in Cosmopolitan:

     [Chill girls naturally] have tons of dude friends, they're not invested in the person they're casually sleeping with, and they like sports and beer.

2. (Internet slang, usually derogatory) A woman who thinks feminist identity politics are unimportant or unnecessary.
   • 2012 March 7, Katie Rogers, “On Stealth Feminism”, in The Cipher‎^[1], archived from the original on 5 March 2016:

     We can talk about sex in front of her, don’t have to get the door for her. You know, she’s a chill girl. She’s a bro.

   • 2013 April 2, “Feminism and the Chill Girl”, in Sidkettle's Blog‎^[2], retrieved 2013-10-22:

     Since Chill Girl is not actually an avatar of Women, she does not have the power to hand out get out of saying-crap-about-women-jail-free cards. It’s not secret!not-sexist because your girlfriend laughed.

   • 2013 October 15, Eseld Bosustow, “Lady MRAs: What's going on with THAT?”, in Coquettish Colloquies‎^[3], retrieved 2013-10-22:

     But lady MRAs take being a chill girl to a whole new level.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:chill girl.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chill,‎ girl.