passenger princess

English

Etymology

The earliest known use is in a 2020 Tweet (see quotation below).[1] The term was popularized on TikTok in the early 2020s.[2]

Noun

passenger princess (plural passenger princesses)

  1. (Internet slang) A woman who consistently lets someone else (especially her partner) drive her around while she sits in the passenger seat.
    Does that passenger princess even know how to drive?
    • 2020 January 31, @ohthatwelshguy, Twitter, archived from the original on 28 November 2023:
      She loves being the passenger princess
    • 2023 August 28, “No more Melbourne taxi scams: New rules prevent drivers from jacking up prices”, in Beat Magazine, archived from the original on 2023-09-04:
      Well, good news for us passenger princesses: the Victorian government has announced that this bartering system will soon be a thing of the past. Melbourne taxi drivers will soon be required to use the meters when they are flagged down or picked up from a taxi rank.

References

  1. Passenger Princess”, in Know Your Meme, launched 2007
  2. passenger princess”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
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