RARA-AVIS: B-girls

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• From: Katherine Ann Harper <kharper@BGNet.bgsu.edu>
• Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 09:35:10 -0500 (EST)
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On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, William Denton wrote:

> Slang time:  what is a "B-girl?"  A woman in a bar who entices men into
> buying more drinks, while she drinks coloured water?  Its she
> necessarily a prostitute?  Would you only find her where prostitutes
> were around?

That's the correct definition; the word is short for "bar girl."  B-girls
are/were often prostitutes (see, for example, the character of Billie the 
Kid in Fredric Brown's _The Wench is Dead_), but not necessarily so.

When I was in high school, I worked in the kitchen of a combination
restaurant-bar that was frequented by office-hours drinkers; there were
several intelligent and very nice b-girls on the payroll.  One evening, I
chatted with one at the end of her shift.  She groaned, "I've had so much
ginger ale tonight that my back teeth are floating." :) 

Kathy


Katherine Harper
Department of English
Bowling Green State University
Visit the W.R. Burnett Page at http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~kharper/

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