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語源

From girl +‎ boss, popularised by American businesswoman Sophia Amoruso in her 2014 book #Girlboss.

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名詞

girlboss (plural girlbosses)

1. (neologism) A female entrepreneur who succeeds in the male-dominated business world.
   • 2014, review of #Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso, Kirkus Reviews, 15 July 2014, page 41:

     The book also includes sidebars featuring guest “girlbosses” (bloggers, Internet entrepreneurs) who share equally clichéd suggestions for business success.

   • 2021, Leigh Stein, quoted in Arwa Mahdawi, Strong Female Lead: Lessons from Women in Power, unnumbered page:

     The girlboss didn't change the system; she thrived within it. Now that system is cracking, and so is this icon of millennial hustle.

   • 2025 November 6, Ellie Muir, “In All's Fair, the girlboss archetype has never been more embarrassing”, in The Independent‎, archived from the original on 16 February 2026:

     Indeed, this series is supposedly set in the present day, but these girlbosses speak as if the year is still 2014, and they are corporate robots pre-programmed to name-drop luxury brands in each sentence (“Let’s get those Goyard travel cases and start stuffing!”). […] Born in the mid-2010s, the concept of the girlboss promised a utopia where women could bulldoze into workplaces, pull up a seat at male-dominated tables and become a celebrated CEO on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List by the ripe age of 23 (and do it all, of course, wearing a fuchsia blazer and a balayage hairdo).

2. (neologism, by extension) Any strong-willed, independent, enterprising woman.
   • 2021, Judy Berman, "What comes after the pop-culture girlboss", Time, 5 July 2021 - 12 July 2021, page 98:

     But viewers stanned girlbosses in every genre, from Parks and Recreation's idealistic bureaucrat Leslie Knope to Game of Thrones' colonizer Khaleesi, Daenerys Targaryen.

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

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動詞

girlboss (third-person singular simple present girlbosses, present participle girlbossing, simple past and past participle girlbossed)

1. (intransitive) To behave or act as a girlboss.
   • 2020 June 25, Amanda Mull, “The Girlboss Has Left the Building”, in The Atlantic‎, archived from the original on 26 March 2021:

     The reality of girlbossing, however, was always a little bit messier. […] Girlbossing provided a tenuous bridge in the mid-2010s: on one end, the reality of social upheaval and stagnant wage growth that met young people in the job market after the Great Recession; on the other, the long-gone world of predictable corporate success that these women had been promised by the professional progress of their mothers.

   • 2023 January 23, Michelle Elias, “Taylor Swift is on the world tour that’s tipped to make her a billionaire. Fans are torn”, in SBS‎, archived from the original on 25 April 2023:

     Did Taylor Swift "girl boss" too close to the sun? Some fans are now debating the ethics of making and having that much money.

   • 2025, “CANCELLED!”, in The Life of a Showgirl, performed by Taylor Swift:

     Did you girlboss too close to the sun? / Did they catch you having far too much fun?

参考

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Further reading

• girlboss on Wikipedia.Wikipedia