Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A teenage girl.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s); -- sometimes used for any adolescent girl, especially one following the latest youthful fashion .
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- noun US a
teenage girl wearingbobby socks
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s)
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Examples
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That would be like me using the term bobbysoxer now.
New Doctor Who Rogers 2006
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The bobbysoxer is going nuts for Frankie, but the power of butter will soon snap her out of it.
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So have the carpet beater, the Sinatra-swooning bobbysoxer, typewriter, and car engine crank.
Grammy Awards Board KILLS Polka Category To Stay 'Relevant'!! 2009
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Prissy Jones was just your average bobbysoxer growing up in a quiet small town, in love with comics and often bullied by this girl at school named Betty, who looks an awful lot like Bettie Page.
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When Miss Snark was a bobbysoxer certain college professors required textbooks they had written for the course syllabus.
Snarkling Sunday! Miss Snark 2005
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Not to Scot though, the whole thing is a victory for Mitt's dashing private sector values...ghod you can hear Scot sighing like a bobbysoxer in every paragraph.
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Instead she had command of jive talk, adolescent slang, and high school double-talk which would be meaningless to any but another American bobbysoxer.
The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein Heinlein, Robert A. 1966
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You know, I felt like a bobbysoxer, I saw all the young actors.
NYT > Home Page By MELENA RYZIK 2011
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"You know," he said, "I felt like a bobbysoxer, I saw all the young actors.
NYT > Home Page By MELENA RYZIK 2011
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