"diva" = notorious woman

[Jonathan Lighter]

Fox News Live, about twenty minutes ago:

"Will the ACLU get these drug-dealing divas back on the street ?"

13 million "diva / divas" hits on Web alone, many of them evidently in this sense.

This word seems to have begun mutating about 15 years ago, as I recall, but there's usually been a strong connotation of positive celebrity involved.

JL


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