Definitions

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  • verb informal, of women To boycott.

Etymologies

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Humorous alteration of boycott, as though containing the element boy.

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Examples

  • If you're not familiar with the expression, a girlcott is the opposite of a boycott.

    girlcott costco 2005

  • If you're not familiar with the expression, a girlcott is the opposite of a boycott.

    Archive 2005-07-01 2005

  • A group of teenage girls from Pennsylvania organized their so-called girlcott in response to these T-shirts.

    CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2005 2005

  • And I'm going to start googling and asking my Chilean friends to find out what else I can "girlcott" to help Chile.

    Let's Girlcott Chile: Buy Products To Help Their Economy 2010

  • I wrote a post about how, rather than simply sending donations, we might start looking for products to buy that will help Chileans rebuild their economy after the devastating earthquake (s) -- I dubbed this a "girlcott".

    Julia Moulden: New Radical Revolution: 10 World-Changing Ideas 2010

  • And I'm going to start googling and asking my Chilean friends to find out what else I can "girlcott" to help Chile.

    Julia Moulden: Let's Girlcott Chile: Buy Products To Help Their Economy 2010

  • I wrote a post about how, rather than simply sending donations, we might start looking for products to buy that will help Chileans rebuild their economy after the devastating earthquake (s) -- I dubbed this a "girlcott".

    New Radical Revolution: 10 World-Changing Ideas 2010

  • The local teen organizers of a "girlcott" that led Abercrombie & Fitch to pull two T-shirts from its shelves will visit the company's headquarters today to pitch their own designs.

    Feministing: Activism Archives 2009

  • Ironically, Abercrombie executives got their you-know-whats handed to them by a pack of feminist-minded twelve to seventeen year olds in the Girls as Grantmakers program in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, who staged a boycott (or "girlcott," as they put it) of the tee shirts and landed on the Today Show discussing Abercrombie's misogynistic marketing with Katie Couric.

    Liz Funk: The Devil Wears Abercrombie 2008

  • Let me also spread the word on what Professor Black Woman has called for a "girlcott" of Seal Press books: Please read this important post!

    Blog About Congo Rape Epidemic Today! Anxious Black Woman 2008

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  • (fr. Wordspy, noun.) A boycott that includes only female participants.

    May 14, 2008

  • Which, given the primary role women have in economic growth, would be... uhh... all boycotts? ;)

    May 15, 2008

  • spotted this in my news feeds.

    February 17, 2016