bobby soxer

See also: bobbysoxer and bobby-soxer

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Etymology

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

Noun

bobby soxer (plural bobby soxers)

  1. (historical) In the 1940s, a young woman or teenage girl who was a zealous fan of traditional pop, especially of Frank Sinatra.
    Coordinate term: teenybopper
    • 1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room Is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
      From my mother I’d learned that “nice” people should always frequent “nice” places, but here was Maria, certifiably nice, who relished the diner, twirled on the metal stool like a bobby-soxer, and punched out tunes on the jukebox.
    • 2006, Ilana Nash, American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-century Popular Culture, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 165:
      After having played both Judy Graves and Corliss Archer, Shirley Temple finally cemented her latter-day reputation as Hollywood's ultimate bobby-soxer when she starred in the only film to use the term in its title: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947).

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