best girl

• best gal (girlfriend sense only)

best girl (plural best girls)

1. (dated) One's girlfriend.
   • 1954, Esquire, volume 41, number 2, page 12:

     […] your fine magazine […] is a pleasure to read anywhere, but in an isolated spot such as this it's almost as good as a sugar report from the best girl!

   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:

     Soon, you might think, a lone figure dressed in tails and a top-hat — Fred Astaire, or maybe Gene Kelly — would appear and dance his way from one of those spots to the next, singing about how lonely a fellow could be when his best girl had given him the air and all the bars were closed.

2. (film production) A woman who performs the duties of a best boy.
3. (fandom slang) A reader or viewer's preferred female character.
   • 2020 April 22, Will Harrison, “15 Anime To Watch If You Love Fruits Basket”, in CBR‎^[1]:

     Also: Miku is best girl, thank you for attending this TED Talk.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:best girl.

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