gal

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Now she's what I call a gal -- ez pretty and plump ez a quail;

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  1. noun Informal A girl.
  2. noun The centimeter-gram-second unit of acceleration, equal to one centimeter per second per second.

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  • Anyway, this gal was a chronic problem: okay at the job, which doesn't require much, but absent a lot, late, didn't get along, that kind of thing. —  AHMM, April 2002
  • This gal was a young woman with a very short haircut and very long legs. —  Charlaine Harris - Southern Vamp 07 - All Together Dead
  • She turned to the other woman to her left, a thin Chinese gal. —  ChallengingDestiny22:April2006
  • From fredrickson - 01 Sep 2008 @ 09: 53 am In Reply to Roman_Nostalgia: In reality this gal is addicted to LSD. —  Immigration News Daily
  • I'm generally a live and let live kind of gal, and I don't really care all that much what you do in your bedroom, but I'm willing to draw the line at stomping on small animals. —  feminist blogs
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  1. Alteration of girl.
  2. After Galileo Galilei.

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  1. Cornish.
 

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