bobby socks

Also bob·sox
Or bob·by sox,

[bob-ee-soks]

plural noun

1. socks that reach above the ankle and are sometimes folded down to the ankle.

adjective

1. indicating or associated with the wearing of bobbysocks; adolescent.

   strictly a bobbysocks crowd; the bobbysocks generation.

bobby socks

plural noun

1. ankle-length socks worn by teenage girls, esp in the US in the 1940s

Word History and Origins

Origin of bobby socks¹

1940–45, bobby (for bobbed ² ( def. ), altered by association with bobby pin ) + socks ( def. )

Example Sentences

Scrappy Marie from Glasgow was edged out by Lulu, with her chipmunk smile, sculpted hair and bobby socks.

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Born in 1927 and growing up to catch the eye of a local farmer named Dale, my papa, it’s doubtful she was going around in her bobby socks or whatever they wore back then talking to him about birds.

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He met his wife, Mary Lou, in 1956, brunette and pretty, wearing bobby socks at a fraternity mixer at Michigan State.

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As for making yourself unpopular, you might as well show up to a university lecture wearing Christopher Robin shorts and white bobby socks as be accused of anthropomorphism.

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“I would wear brown tights and white bobby socks and I would gallop around the house.”

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