hot girl summer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot girl summers
Etymology: Popularized by Megan Thee Stallion's song "Hot Girl Summer", released on August 9, 2019.
Senses: examples: text: “Soak all of this up because, after this, that’s it. Nigga, I done let you mess up two hot girl summers for me, back to back. That’s it,” I said in all honesty.
ref: 2019, Diamond Johnson, Down With the King of the South 4, Leo Sullivan, →ISBN:
text: The Thomas’ had seen me through thick and thicker, through years of hot girl summers, through long and short bouts of dating.
ref: 2019, DL White, The Kwanzaa Brunch (The Holiday Shorts; 3), →ISBN:
text: The range of what can be considered having a hot girl summer is wide. Posting a glamorous picture of yourself in your best bathing suit? That’s living out hot girl summer.
ref: 2019 July 19, Carlos De Loera, “The ‘hot girl summer’ meme, explained”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: And yes, in case you were wondering, you don’t have to be single to have a hot girl summer.
ref: 2019 August 1, Connor Garel, “You Might Be Having A ‘Hot Girl Summer’ Without Even Knowing It”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 28 Sep 2021:
text: Girls like us / who are the hot girl summers / dreaming of the day we can bathe on beaches / unbothered / free to re-enact our own episodes of Baywatch / replace the convention of Pamela Anderson with
ref: 2021, Reece Lyons, “#GirlsLikeUs”, in Everything is Going to be All Right: Poems for When You Really Need Them, Trapeze, →ISBN:
text: I think everybody’s lives can be a bit messy at times. Some people get hot-girl summers, I have hot-mess-girl summers. It, too, shall pass.
ref: 2022, Alexa Martin, Better than Fiction, Berkley Romance, →ISBN, page 115:
text: I WANNA HAVE MY HOT GIRL SUMMER!
ref: 2022, Nekotofu, translated by Devon Corwin, ONIMAI: I’m Now Your Sister!, volume 6, Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC, →ISBN, page 71:
text: “I’m in the middle of my hot girl summer, and I think it’s about time to add a cowboy to my list.”
ref: 2022, Charles Lemar Brown, The Road to Nowhere, Broken L Press, →ISBN:
text: Hadleigh told me that I should enjoy my hot girl summer and have fun being single for the first time in four years.
ref: 2023, Kennedy Fox, Evan & Emily (Bishop Family Origin; 2), →ISBN:
text: In the ’90s, Hot Girl Summers were reserved for the light-skin gummas with green eyes.
ref: 2023, Sasha Kutabah Sarago, Gigorou: It’s Time to Reclaim Beauty. First Nations Wisdom and Womanhood., Pantera Press, →ISBN:
text: “You need to be wearing less and going out more. Young thing like you don’t need to be tied down right away, no way. Take it from someone over thirty-five. You don’t have many hot girl summers left.”
ref: 2023, Morgan Jane Mitchell, Valentine’s Eve (Royal Bastards MC: Nashville, TN):
text: But also I definitely didn't want him to come… I was like, I want to go ahead with my hot girl summer and be single.
ref: 2023 April 28, Rachel Barker, quoting Sarah, “We Spoke to People Who Got Back With Their Ex And Made it Work”, in Vice, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2023:
glosses: A summer when one is feeling and looking especially good.
wikipedia: Hot Girl Summer
Megan Thee Stallion