noun General Slang

girl crush

· noun · lesbian

An intense, non-sexual (usually) admiration one woman has for another she finds magnetic.

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Definitions

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The mainstream version: a woman's starry-eyed admiration for another woman she finds cool, gorgeous, or impossibly put-together. Framed as platonic, no attraction implied. You want to BE her or be her friend, not date her.

“Total girl crush on the new manager, she's so effortlessly stylish I can't cope.”
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The wlw read: a 'girl crush' that's quietly an actual crush. Often a (supposedly) straight woman's feelings she hasn't clocked yet. Sapphics use it with a raised eyebrow, because half the time 'I just admire her so much' is the closet talking.

“She keeps calling it a girl crush but she's memorised the girl's entire schedule, babe that's a crush crush.”
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girl crush In A Sentence

Total girl crush on the new manager, she's so effortlessly stylish I can't cope.
She keeps calling it a girl crush but she's memorised the girl's entire schedule, babe that's a crush crush.

Origin & Usage

Mainstream slang since the 2000s; the wlw scene reclaimed it knowingly, with the wink that a 'girl crush' is sometimes just a crush.

Variants girlcrush
Tags #lesbian#wlw#lgbtq#sapphic

People Also Ask

Is a girl crush gay?

Not necessarily. In mainstream use it's platonic admiration. But the term gets used a lot to soften feelings someone isn't ready to name, so it sits on a spectrum.

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