Definitions

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  • noun slang A female friend or girlfriend.

Etymologies

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gal +‎ pal, chosen for the rhyme.

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Examples

  • David Cook’s cougar galpal is broken-hearted and spilling the beans after the former American Idol champed ended his yearlong romance with the Lindsay Lohan deadringer — who is nine years his senior — because he feared the relationship was alienating his fans!

    David Cook “The Time Of My Life” Audio 2009

  • Brace yourself during flu season if your galpal is an ailing Aries.

    HerScopes Charlene Lichtenstein 2000

  • Brace yourself during flu season if your galpal is an ailing Aries.

    HerScopes Charlene Lichtenstein 2000

  • Brace yourself during flu season if your galpal is an ailing Aries.

    HerScopes Charlene Lichtenstein 2000

  • Instead it's another old friend who's circling the drain, albeit one we haven't seen since she figured prominently in Season 1, free-spirited boho illustrator Midge Daniels, the first Don Draper galpal we came to know.

    William Bradley: Mad Men : Nothing Like a Little Lemonade to Rinse the Smoke From One's Eyes William Bradley 2010

  • A galpal of Kim's tells In Touch that she's dating actor and musician Michael Copon, who's best known for his role on One Tree Hill.

    Michael Copon: Kim Kardashian's New Boyfriend? Katy Hall 2010

  • A galpal of Kim's tells In Touch that she's dating actor and musician Michael Copon, who's best known for his role on One Tree Hill.

    Michael Copon: Kim Kardashian's New Boyfriend? The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Instead it's another old friend who's circling the drain, albeit one we haven't seen since she figured prominently in Season 1, free-spirited boho illustrator Midge Daniels, the first Don Draper galpal we came to know.

    William Bradley: Mad Men : Nothing Like a Little Lemonade to Rinse the Smoke From One's Eyes William Bradley 2010

  • After putting away her lab coat, my can-do galpal goes right to the drawing board, gets out the slide rule and the calipers and meets with people to try to figure out strategies that will increase LGBT ownership and support of our movement.

    Kate Clinton: Be the Math 2010

  • The galpal we didn't see at the salon party was Stacie Scott Turner, who opted instead to hang with her real girlfriends for the one real D.C. thing about this whole episode: Howard Homecoming!

    'Housewives' Nightlife Ep. 4: Good times in 'Hollywood for ugly people' 2010

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