A teenage girl.
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Meaning #1:
an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s)
Synonym: bobbysocker
Bobby soxer was a term coined in the 1940s to describe the overly zealous, usually teenage, fans of singer Frank Sinatra, who was the first singing teen idol. Typically, they would wear poodle skirts while rolling their socks down to ankle level.
Shirley Temple portrayed this type of impressionable adolescent in the 1947 film, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.
The Bobbysox Brigade, a professional swing dance troupe.
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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
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
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - גילאית טיפש-עשרה
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