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.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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