English Explanatory Dictionary

bobby soxer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In the 1940s, a young woman or teenage girl who was a zealous fan of traditional pop, especially of Frank Sinatra.

Word forms

bobby soxer bobby soxers bobby-soxer bobbysoxer

Etymology

From the bobby socks that they wore; bobby sox + -er.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on B Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary