Meaning

2 senses

  1. (colloquial)A young woman or girl; generally a form of rural Southern slang.

    alliterative term for girl (or woman)

  2. A galileo (unit of acceleration).

    a unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo)

Examples

13 sentences

  1. You're my kind of gal.

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  2. Mary is quite a gal.

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  3. You're a funny gal.

    ruТы забавная девчонка. — Biga

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  4. I'd like a roll with butter and a galão.

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  5. Those gorilla gals are always acting cheeky!

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Origin

From a dialectal pronunciation of girl, attested since 1795; compare gell, g'hal. Shorten

From a dialectal pronunciation of girl, attested since 1795; compare gell, g'hal.

Shortened from galileo.

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Forms

plural: gals
Singulargal
Pluralgals

regular

Synonyms

64 synonyms
birdA1cakeA1girlA1grillB1missA1broadB1ladyA1queenA2sheA1wifeA1womanA1babechickcolleen
Close in meaning
  • United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters:gallon

Word family

13 related words
Relatedgalgekogalgal-iron
Derivedattagalcowgalfangalgalfriendgal gamegallygalpaltransgalwise galmilligal

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
gainB1gaitgalagalacticgalaxy

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