tomboy
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Tracye, who describes herself as the tomboy of the group, reminisces on being dressed as what she calls a little jester one year.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
"I thought I was the tomboy, the only girl that played in the football team, then this little upstart popped up," Westbury tells BBC Sport.
From BBC ● May 20, 2025
Da Brat said she had been fortunate to have the producer Jermaine Dupri as a mentor who never tried to change her tomboy image during the height of her career.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
So, I always considered myself a tomboy, but I still like to dress up and be sparkly with rhinestones and glitter and fringe and all that kind of stuff.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
My mom was the problem child, a tomboy, stubborn, defiant.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
Born 10 years earlier, we would have been called tomboys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
The sisters, who were "tomboys from the time we were little kids", were "constantly reminded we don't fit in," says Alisa.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2023
But we shouldn’t let the old-school tomboys in pop culture fade away in the process.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020
Growing up in Northern California’s Grass Valley, Streicher and her sisters were self-described tomboys who never spent that long getting ready.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2019
Surely her Laura was not in the least like these Western tomboys!
From The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge The Ranch Girls Series by Vandercook, Margaret
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