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bobbysoxer
noun
a teenage girl US, 1944
“Bobby socks” (ankle-high white socks, first recorded in 1927) as a generational trademark for American teenagers arrived on the national scene in June 1937, with a cover photograph in Life magazine. After “the socks” came “the soxer”. The “bobby” is most likely constructed on “to bob”to cut or shorten (to bob).- Champion of the Bobby Soxers [Headline] — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 10, 18 February 1946
- “Occasional” prostitutes work some of the bars, and bobby soxers flirt at Washington Square. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 69, 1948
- Gregory Peck, or some of the new boy friends of the bobby-soxers I’m too old to remember the names of?” — Philip Wylie, Opus 21, p. 83, 1949
- America’s Favorite Bobby-Soxer [Headline] — Life, p. 23, 14 November 1949
- She’s been around, she knows what the score is, she ain’t some punk bobby-soxer with the mood in her eyes. — Jim Thompson, A Swell-Looking Babe, p. 80, 1954
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