tomboy

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Listen to her songs today and you’ll hear her tones and tactics coursing through the past 20 years of popular music — her profound interiority, her melodic nonchalance, her sci-fi tomboy aura.

From Washington Post

They described the bubbly 5-year-old as a tomboy who liked to have a shaved head and loved Disney princesses.

From Fox News

“Basketball chose me, an awkward, lanky, introverted tomboy, born with a hearing disability, a speech impediment, and a will to overcome obstacles, dream big and to change the world,” Catchings said.

From Seattle Times

I grew up a tomboy, and when I read that collection, I thought, ‘That’s great that they dealt with that, ‘cause I’m not going to have to.

From Los Angeles Times

Mom dismisses Joe as a tomboy, unwilling to see how the dresses she foists on the kid are suffocating and painfully misguided.

From Los Angeles Times