bobbysoxer

Dictionary: bob·by·sox·er bobby sox·er (bŏb'ē-sŏk'sər) pronunciation

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n. Informal
A teenage girl.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s)
Synonym: bobbysocker

Wikipedia: Bobby soxer

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Bobby soxer is a 1940s sociologic coinage denoting the over zealous, usually teenage girls, fans of singer Frank Sinatra, the first singing teen idol; by the 1950s, fashionable adolescent girls wore poodle skirts and rolled down their socks to the ankle. In high schools, the gymnasium often was used as a dance floor, however, since street shoes and street detritus might damage the polished wood floors, the students were required to remove their shoes and dance in their bobby socks, thus the phrase 'sock hop'.

The adolescent actress Shirley Temple portrayed said type of impressionable adolescent girl in the film, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947).

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Translations: Bobby-soxer

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - teenagepige

Français (French)
n. - (US) minette (des années 40)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Backfisch

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (ΗΠΑ) κοριτσόπουλο

Italiano (Italian)
ragazzina

Português (Portuguese)
n. - mocinha (f) adolescente (coloq.) (EUA)

Русский (Russian)
девочка-подросток

Español (Spanish)
n. - jovencita

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - tonårstjej

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
少女

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 少女

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 10대 소녀

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 十代の女の子

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮גילאית טיפש-עשרה‬

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