Word for a woman. Less respectable than lady but much more respectable than bitch.
Man, look at those two broads. They are smokin.
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βIβm going to pick me up a broad to take with me to the danceβ, Sodapop said
βSound niceβ, Ponyboy said.
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When you and your friends go out solely for the purpose of picking up girls.
Man, I haven't been laid in a while. Let's go broading.
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Word for a woman. Less respectable than lady but much more respectable than bitch.
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A term originated in the 1930's meaning woman; derived from the fact that the most defining characteristic of all females are their hips, which are proportionally wider than the hips of their male counterparts.
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Chris: Yo wrangler, lets hit the bar.
Wrangler: Nah boss, I'm chillen with one of my broades 2nite.
Chris: soft
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Pre WW II slang for an independent, assertive/aggressive woman. Usually in show business, a broad is a singer, dancer, actor or business-woman who sings loud, parties hard and is often abrasive, sarcastic and in-your-face. A variation is the "classy broad" which implies she has either been born rich, snagged herself a sugar-daddy, or has succeeded on her own.
Broads are generally moderately attractive or better, are never seen without their best dresses and perfect makeup, and know how to compete and win in a man's world. In some pre-war Hollywood films, broads are portrayed as gangsters' girlfriends or even their accomplices or gun molls but that was rarely the case in real life. Also in Hollywood films of the era, broads chewed gum incessantly and spoke with a thick, sarcastic New York accent.
Often men who felt threatened by strong-willed, successful women would call them broads in a derogatory sense.
Bette Midler on her persona: "People always love a broad -- someone with a sense of humor, someone with a fairly wicked tongue, someone who can belt out a song, someone who takes no guff. "
Hey Manny! Lookit dat broad... She's built like a brick shithouse! - Construction worker to a friend.
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