Bond girl

Definition

One of the beautiful, seductive young women who appear in James Bond movies.

Etymology

From James Bond + girl.

Example Sentences

• "Sam scowled. 'I hate villains who call me Miss Jones,' she told him. 'It makes me feel like a Bond girl.'"
• "When a lunch companion suggested that she might not want to take the Halle Berry route should she be nominated for an Oscar for "Monster," and win — soul-searching performance followed by a turn as a Bond girl — Theron threw her head back and howled."
• "[Xenia] Onatopp has been so deeply analysed, not just as a moment of Bond girl resurgence in the franchise – a move away from interchangeable damsels towards women who could crush you with their thighs, and whose only distress would be if they laddered their tights – but also for what, if any, statement it made about feminism as dominance, sadism as a baton passing from the male to the female."