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bobbysoxer

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bob·by·sox·er also bobby sox·er  (bb-sksr)
n. Informal
A teenage girl.
bobbysoxer [ˈbɒbɪˌsɒksə]
n
Informal chiefly US an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks, esp in the 1940s
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Noun1.bobbysoxer - an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s)
bobby-socker
jeune fille, lass, lassie, young girl - a girl or young woman who is unmarried
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bobbysoxer [ˈbɒbɪsɒksəʳ] N (US) → tobillera f
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Incidentally, the backwater Hoboken, once known, if at all, as the birthplace of Ol' Blue Eyes Frank Sinatra, is now filling up with bobbysoxers who can no longer afford their lofts in Manhattan's Upper East Side but can look across the George Washington Bridge at a skyline bereft of the Twin Towers but still one of the modern wonders of the world.
Bid to silence me is my golden opportunity by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
The date goes some way towards explaining the costumes, although someone parachuted in midway might have wondered why a woman resembling Edwina Currie was prancing around with a bunch of ponytailed bobbysoxers whose principal role, at least at the outset, appeared to be to shriek with no provocation whatsoever.
Love leaves you reeling by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Jumpin' Jack It's sad to watch so many aging bobbysoxers, disc jockeys, worshipers and apologists for Frank Sinatra still mourn over the loss of the man they call the last great singer in history, like he was the world's last tax exemption.
Pitt-Jolie Are No Nick and Nora by Rex Reed / The New York Observer
 
 
 
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