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- adjective Having a romantic storyline between a man and a woman.
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Examples
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Chai is still perfecting his boy-meets-girl aesthetic, but Thursday's show proved he has made great strides.
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I think they felt sorry for me, not being able to cut it in the boy-meets-girl love story that they were all living, what with the being fat, dark, and having no ass thing, and mostly thinking of myself as too “special” to be subservient to men.
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I think they felt sorry for me, not being able to cut it in the boy-meets-girl love story that they were all living, what with the being fat, dark, and having no ass thing, and mostly thinking of myself as too “special” to be subservient to men.
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The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened, transposed from a boy-meets-girl into a boy-meets-boy ballad, is melodically beautiful.
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There's also the usual boy-meets-girl thing at camp.
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I think they felt sorry for me, not being able to cut it in the boy-meets-girl love story that they were all living, what with the being fat, dark, and having no ass thing, and mostly thinking of myself as too “special” to be subservient to men.
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“What elevates the ‘Twilight’ phenomenon from being merely boy-meets-girl, is that the ‘ever after’ is a lot longer because Edward (the vampire hero of the series, played by Robert Pattinson in the films) is immortal,” said Claudia Mair Burney, the author of several books, including the Exorsistah series for young adults.
TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS: FEBRUARY 6TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
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The group showed its appreciation of Mr. Haden by playing his tunes, which unrolled like scenes in a classic film: The bright and optimistic "Hello My Lovely" could have underscored a scene of boy-meets-girl; the romping calypso "Child's Play" belonged under a dance sequence; and the excruciatingly haunting ballad "First Song" clearly represented a moment of heartbreak.
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“What elevates the ‘Twilight’ phenomenon from being merely boy-meets-girl, is that the ‘ever after’ is a lot longer because Edward (the vampire hero of the series, played by Robert Pattinson in the films) is immortal,” said Claudia Mair Burney, the author of several books, including the Exorsistah series for young adults.
TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS: FEBRUARY 6TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
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There's also the usual boy-meets-girl thing at camp.
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