good-time girl

• goodtime girl, good time girl

good-time girl (plural good-time girls)

1. (euphemistic) A young woman who engages regularly in partying and romantic or sexual liaisons.

   Synonym: party girl

   Hypernym: good-timer

   Coordinate term: good-time Charlie

   • 1936 May 25, “Miscellany: Bouncer”, in Time:

     "I'm a good-time girl. Clothes, music, lights, dancing and liquor-what else is there when a girl is young?"

   • 1991 December 8, Maureen Dowd, “Bugsy in Love, on Stage and Off”, in New York Times, retrieved 3 June 2011:

     Virginia is a wild, promiscuous, good-time girl, but she's self-sufficient.

   • 2004 January 5, David Teather, “Pop star thinks again after Las Vegas wedding”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 3 June 2011:

     The incident is the latest in the singer's path from virginal role model to raunchy good-time girl.

2. (euphemistic) A female prostitute.

   Synonym: party girl

   Coordinate term: john

   • 2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 104:

     Just recently I found a story about a woman who was murdered in Niniltna back in 1915, a woman they called 'the Angel', one of the good-time girls who came up with the stampeders to mine the gold miners in the Yukon, and who came down to mine the copper miners along the Kanuyaq afterword.

   • 2006, James R. Clark, American Soldier at 13 Yrs Old WWII, →ISBN, page 190:

     We hadn't been out of the bar very long when a small, young Korean boy came up to us and wanted to know if we wanted good-time girls.

   • 2013, Tom Lisanti, Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles, →ISBN, page 76:

     In The Loved One (1965) Lyn is lost amongst the myriad of starlets playing funeral parlor hostesses, cosmetologists, and scantily clad good-time girls.

• Usually used as an expression of disapproval.

• “good-time girl”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.