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Bobbsey Twins noun- used as a representation of either innocence or a strong resemblance US
From a popular series of children’s books created by Edward Stratemeyer and written under the name of Laura Lee Hope by writers under contract to Stratemeyer. - The backlot scuttle is that Mike Frankovich’s “Doctors’ Wives” will make the Kinsey Report look like Bobbsey Twins research. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 37, 3 November 1969
- One of the questions show folks often discuss is, “Which of the British Bobbsey Twins, Tom Jones or Engelbert Humperdinck, will be around longer?” — San Francisco Examiner, p. 33, 2 August 1971
- two girls who regularly double-date US
An allusion to a 72-book juvenile series created by Edward Stratemeyers, writing under the name Laura Lee Hope, in 1904. - — Mary Swift, Campus Slang (University of Texas), 1968
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