"holla back girl" goes waaaaaaaay beyond simply not being a doormat. As noted elsewhere, at it's simplest, a "holla back girl" is one who waits for the lead cheerleader to holler, before she hollers back. In Stefani's song, she's responding to someone who said some shit about her, and she's saying teling that person that she's not the type to simply holler some shit back. Instead, she's gonna deliver an asskickin' to the shit-talker. Thus, in the context that Stefani uses the term, a "holla back girl" is someone who's nothin' but talk.
An holla back girl's response to being insulted:
Girl 1: You're a bitch.
HB Girl: No, you're a bitch. And you're fat and ugly too!

A NON-HB Girl's response to the same insult:
Girl 1: You're a bitch.
NHB Girl punches Girl 1 in the face, making further commentary entirely unecessary.
by Paul Kz November 26, 2005
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as on family guy "its a foul diese ridden thing that wears tok much makeup to cover up the 47 year old fish dog"
when peter plays "holla back girl" over the loudspeaker at prison
by ramnasty June 1, 2009
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OK, here's the shit...
A Hollaback Girl is a girl who answers when a scrub hollas up "Yo!" at her from a car. A girl like that ain't got no standards. She'll talk to any guy, no matter how lame or uncool that guy is. A Hollaback Girl is just another step down from a "Ho."
Some scrub hollas up; "yo girl, where you go-in?" And a hollaback girl yells back..."ain't gone nowhere boy...whachu you do-in?"
by the real me... August 11, 2005
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A girl who in another language can be defied as a hoodrat, i.e. a woman who will be at the beck and call of a man or another woman for the purpose of sexual intercourse or another form of sexual gratification.
In spanish: "Piruja" or "Trampa".
see also Ice Cube: "Thats the kind of B*#^H you can call at 2 in the mornin..."
El Smiley hooked up with this little hoodrat from Cudahy. He calls her everytime he wants some. She's his holla back girl.
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"Hey baby. I can't stay all night. I'll holla back when I get a chance."
by Oso 213 September 6, 2005
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God awful new song by gwen stefani on her worst album sofar: love, angel, music, baby.
This Shit is Bananas,
B-A-N-A-N-A-S.
Yeah Gwen, your shit is bananas.
by Edwin April 16, 2005
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I just have to say in response to other entries.
Gwen Stafani does nothing brilliantly.
No art, no class, act your age gwen
Brian in family guy sums it up perfectly:
"I don't know what a holla back girl is. I only know that I want her dead".
by Martin James January 18, 2008
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1.Usually a cheerleading memeber, they are the ones that hollaback the word that had just been said.
2.A slang for ''I catch up with you later''
3. A son by Gwen Stefani
1.Who's bad? WER'E BAD!!
2. Okay holla back girl
3. I have no idea what holla back girl means but apperently Gwen Stefani isn't one and it has something to do with bananas.
by DizzyLizzy May 29, 2006
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