fast-tailed
Fast-tailed is an AAVE term typically used to describe a young woman — often a girl or teenager — who is perceived as sexually forward, flirtatious, or promiscuous beyond what her age or situation warrants.
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Fast-tailed is an AAVE term typically used to describe a young woman — often a girl or teenager — who is perceived as sexually forward, flirtatious, or promiscuous beyond what her age or situation warrants. It carries a strongly disapproving moral connotation and is frequently deployed by older women in Black communities as a warning or rebuke. The term has been critiqued for placing disproportionate blame on young women for male attention and for policing female sexuality.
Her grandmother warned her to stop acting fast-tailed around the boys in the neighbourhood.
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(AAVE) sexually promiscuous; loose; slutty.
Fast-tailed means: sexually promiscuous; loose; slutty.. It carries sexual or vulgar connotations; not alarming on its own but worth understanding the context your teen heard it in. If your teen uses it, context will usually make the intent clear. A short, curious question about where they heard it is usually all that is needed to know whether to follow up.
fast-tailed means: sexually promiscuous; loose; slutty.. Register: very informal, often derogatory or vulgar. Avoid in formal, business, academic, or polite writing. Even in casual speech the word can offend and is best left out of a learner's active vocabulary. A common learner mistake is using the word in a register it does not fit, or assuming a single global meaning; native speakers immediately notice when slang appears in formal contexts, so always check the surrounding register before producing it yourself.
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