Sadie Hawkins
Americannoun
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Also called Sadie, Sadies. a party, dance, or other social event, especially one held annually among high school or college students, to which each girl escorts the boy of her choice, or invites him to escort her.
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a day Sadie Hawkins Day or night, often in November, when such an event or events are held.
Etymology
Origin of Sadie Hawkins
An Americanism dating back to 1939; after the race held on Sadie Hawkins Day (in the cartoon strip Li'l Abner by Al Capp ), in which single women pursued bachelors
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Last year, Kim collaborated with Lee and Spanto, the late co-founder of Born X Raised, on a suit that he wore to his last Sadie Hawkins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
Reporters ran all over Washington like it was a high-powered Sadie Hawkins dance, asking administration officials to sit at tables with them in the 2,600-seat ballroom of the Washington Hilton.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
She compared her app to a Sadie Hawkins dance, where women ask the men.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2015
The relationship began when I asked him to the Sadie Hawkins dance in the winter of our junior year.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2015
After that, it was no longer acceptable to ask a guy to Sadie Hawkins by baking him a plate of cookies or by wearing a T-shirt with his football number on the back.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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