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  • proper noun UK, Canada A worldwide youth organisation for girls. Known as the Girl Scouts in the USA.
  • noun Plural form of Girl Guide.

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Examples

  • They run the Girl Guides; sing in the church choir; coach the kids' soccer team and take part in any number of community activities that take place every day of the year.

    Letters: Cuts that threaten the social fabric 2011

  • Iris Morris Ferris (1910 – 1970) rose to the position of General Secretary in the London headquarters of the Girl Guides movement.

    Baghdadi Jewish Women in India. 2009

  • But I think all the years of camping in Girl Guides, with my parents, and then with some super granola boyfriends have kind of sapped me of my camping spirit.

    » Confessions of a Hippie Mama Strocel.com 2009

  • Girl Scouts sell Thin Mints, Girl Guides sell a similar cookie, but the cookie has a thin minty center instead of having mint in the cookie itself.

    dailycomic Diary Entry dailycomic 2008

  • It was said that he selected the wife who worked with him so long in so charitable a fashion, by picking her out of a whole regiment of women in uniform marching past at some official celebration, some said of the Girl Guides and some of the Women

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • It was said that he selected the wife who worked with him so long in so charitable a fashion, by picking her out of a whole regiment of women in uniform marching past at some official celebration, some said of the Girl Guides and some of the Women

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • The minister said the decision to recruit from schools would mean that organisations such as the Boy Scouts, and Girl Guides and school cadets would have an important role to play as they would assist in recognising an "inclination" by youth towards military life.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • 'We've been talking to the Girl Guides and their response has been great,' says Caryn Franklin.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • 'We've been talking to the Girl Guides and their response has been great,' says Caryn Franklin.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • 'We've been talking to the Girl Guides and their response has been great,' says Caryn Franklin.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

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