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bobby socks

[bob-ee-soks] Origin

bob·by·socks

[bob-ee-soks]
plural noun
1.
socks that reach above the ankle and are sometimes folded down to the ankle.
adjective
2.
indicating or associated with the wearing of bobbysocks; adolescent: strictly a bobbysocks crowd; the bobbysocks generation.

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
Also, bob·by·sox, bobby socks, bobby sox, bob·sox.


Origin:
1940–45, Americanism; bobby (for bobbed, altered by association with bobby pin) + socks1
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bobby socks
 
pl n
ankle-length socks worn by teenage girls, esp in the US in the 1940s

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bobby socks
1943, from dim. of bob (2) + sock (n.). So called because they are "shortened" compared to knee-socks. Derivative bobby-soxer first attested 1944.
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