Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Val n.

(US)

1. a Valley Girl.

[US]Frank Zappa ‘Valley Girl’ 🎵 Whatsa matter with the way I talk? (Valley Girl) I / am a VAL, I know (Valley Girl).
‘Valley Girls’ on Paranoiafanzine 🌐 So just take this quiz and see if you’ve got what it takes to be a Val!

2. San Fernando Valley, California; also attrib.

[US]Lerner et al. Dict. of Today’s Words 187: Valspeak – lingo associated with young people in and around the southern Californian region generally known as ‘the valley.’.
[US]A. Heckerling Clueless [film script] Looks like we’re going to have to make a cameo at the Val party.

3. (Aus.) a Chrysler Valiant automobile.

[Aus]P. Papathanasiou Stoning 23: The Val’s eight cylinders pulled him along the outback road effortlessly.