ALPHA GIRL

(AL.fuh gurl)

n.

The dominant member in a group of girls; a girl who bullies other girls.

Citing new research on teenage relational aggression, a flurry of articles and books have appeared in recent weeks trumpeting the existence of thealpha girl(a k a the "really mean girl" or the "queen bee"), a supremely confident, domineering and manipulative teenager, whose main appeal seems to be her stereotypically masculine behavior.

— Emily Eakin, "Listening for the Voices of Women,"The New York Times, March 30, 2002

Archer managed to overcome her father's misgivings by promising that he would allow Mary — an archetypalAlpha girlwho duly collected an Oxford First — to follow any career she chose.

— Graham Turner, "The Midas Touch,"Sunday Telegraph, May 1, 1994

alpha boomer

alpha earner

alpha geek

alpha mom

alpha pup

camgirl

chick lit

do-it-herselfer

femaleist

hiss and tell

juvenoia

leather spinster

omega male

one-upwomanship

stepwife

tart noir

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