valley girlnoun · 1982
Well attestedA father recorded his fourteen-year-old daughter imitating her classmates, and a suburb north of Hollywood ended up naming a manner of speech.
Frank Zappa's 1982 single Valley Girl featured his daughter Moon Unit improvising the slang of girls at the Sherman Oaks Galleria in the San Fernando Valley. The record was a hit and within a year newspapers and dictionaries were discussing Valley girls and Valspeak. The Valley is not a separate town but a large suburban basin inside the Los Angeles city limits, north of the Santa Monica Mountains.
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