Entry · catalog no. 7409
hot girl summer
/ /ˌhɑt ɡɜrl ˈsʌmər/ /hot-girl-SUM-er
noun · Houston, Texas · 2010s
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1.
A summer spent confident, flirtatious, unbothered, and answering to nobody. As its author defined it, being a hot girl is about confidence — it belongs to anybody willing to have fun and live on their own terms.
“She booked three trips and blocked two exes — a proper hot girl summer.”
Origin & Attribution
Megan Thee Stallion, Houston, 2019. Her Hot Girl Meg persona and the Fever album motto "real hot girl shit" (May 2019) set the phrase moving; the "Hot Girl Summer" single with Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla $ign followed in August, and Megan filed to trademark the phrase the same year. Routinely mislabeled a generic meme; it has an author, a city, and a date.
2019
Fever album and Hot Girl Meg persona (May)
2019
"Hot Girl Summer" single and trademark filing (August)
2020s
Annual revival every June, author intermittently credited
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
The South
Houston, Texas · 2010s
Spoken by
Black women online; then everyone
$HOTGIRThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Steady7 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
90/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2019
in the culture
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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Citations & Sources
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Megan Thee Stallion, Fever ("real hot girl shit")
2019
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+ Cite a sourceMegan Thee Stallion ft. Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign, "Hot Girl Summer"
2019
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