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• bobby soxer
• bobby-soxer

Noun

bobbysoxer ‎(plural bobbysoxers)

1. (US) a teenage girl wearing bobby socks
   • 1988, Edmund White, The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, 1994, Chapter One,

     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.

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