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Lolita

 noun
     
Lolita
1 a character in the novel Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov. It is the story of a middle-aged man who has very strong sexual feelings for a young girl.
2 a girl who is too young to have sex legally, but who behaves in a sexually attractive way
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