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thick girls
or thick women [thik gurls] or [wim-in]
What does聽thick girls mean?
The term thick girls is used for women who are considered especially attractive due to their voluptuous or curvaceous figures.
Where does thick girls come from?
According to Green鈥檚 Dictionary of Slang, thick emerged as black slang, possibly on campuses or in the American South, describing a woman as physically attractive. It鈥檚 found in print by 1998 but, as slang, likely predates that time period when used in speech. The term appeared on Urban Dictionary as 鈥渘ot skinny, with meat on your bones鈥� by 2002. Thick, here, alludes to a fuller body type the term鈥檚 users value as beautiful.
Thickness, a term and concept, is particularly used and celebrated in hip-hop culture. In 2014, for instance, rapper Drake claimed to be 鈥渙bsessed with thick women鈥� when featured on Nicki Minaj鈥檚 single 鈥淥nly.鈥� On his single 鈥淛ust A Lil’ Thick (She Juicy),鈥� rapper Trinidad James dedicated the song to 鈥渁ll my gorgeous, healthy sisters all around the world, I鈥檓 talking the 175 and up club. We cook good, we eat good, and we look good.鈥�
There鈥檚 some debate over the difference between fat and thick. Generally, from the perspective of their users, fat is a negative descriptor while thick is positive. Fatness is associated with excessive skin, an enlarged stomach, and increased risk of health issues. Thick is used more exclusively to sexualize women, referring to full-figured breasts, bottoms, and thighs.
Examples of thick girls
Who uses thick girls?
Thick girls is a slang term used among male or gay female Black English speakers in speech and in digital communication. Given its use among massively popular hip-hop artists, thick is gaining increasing use as a broader, though still informal, term. Although less common, thick can be used to describe men, too.
For some, thick is used and seen as a body-positive term that embraces a body that falls outside of the unrealistic, often white, thinness promoted in Western commerce and media. For others, however, thick can still be offensive, interpreted as another way of objectifying and sexualizing women based purely on their bodies.
When used online and in text messages, the term is sometimes accompanied by the peach emoji, commonly used to represent butts, here thicker ones.
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