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Meaning of "bobbysoxer" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BOBBYSOXER

bobbysoxer  [ˈbɒbɪˌsɒksə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BOBBYSOXER

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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bobbysoxer is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BOBBYSOXER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bobby soxer

Bobby soxer is a 1940s sociological coinage describing the often very zealous fans of Swing music, in particular its creators like singer Frank Sinatra, the first singing teen idol. Bobby soxers were usually teenage girls and young adult women from about 12 to 25. Fashionable adolescent girls wore poodle skirts and rolled down their socks to the ankle. In high schools and colleges, the gymnasium was often used as a dance floor; however, since street shoes and street detritus might damage the polished wood floors, the students were required to remove their shoes and dance in their bobby socks, hence the phrase 'sock hop'. Adopting an impressionable adolescent persona, former child actress Shirley Temple portrayed the type in the film The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.

Definition of bobbysoxer in the English dictionary

The definition of bobbysoxer in the dictionary is an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks, esp in the 1940s.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BOBBYSOXER


adnexa
ædˈnɛksə
al-Aqsa
æl ˈæksə
boxer
ˈbɒksə
chionodoxa
kaɪˌɒnəˈdɒksə
coxa
ˈkɒksə
diplexer
daɪˈplɛksə
elixir
ɪˈlɪksə
fixer
ˈfɪksə
flexor
ˈflɛksə
indexer
ˈɪndeksə
kickboxer
ˈkɪkˌbɒksə
mixer
ˈmɪksə
moxa
ˈmɒksə
multiplexer
ˈmʌltɪˌplɛksə
oxer
ˈɒksə
paradoxer
ˈpærəˌdɒksə
relaxer
rɪˈlæksə
taxa
ˈtæksə
vexer
ˈvɛksə
waxer
ˈwæksə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BOBBYSOXER

bobbery
bobbery pack
bobbies
bobbin
bobbin lace
bobbinet
bobbing
bobbins
bobbish
bobbitt
bobble
bobble hat
bobblehead
bobbly
bobby
bobby calf
bobby pin
bobby socks
bobby-dazzler
bobcat

WORDS THAT END LIKE BOBBYSOXER

affixer
cement mixer
coaxer
concrete mixer
demultiplexer
Dorothy Dixer
duplexer
electric mixer
food mixer
hexer
hoaxer
Ku Kluxer
nixer
perplexer
sexer
sixer
sound mixer
taxer
twenty-sixer
vision mixer

Synonyms and antonyms of bobbysoxer in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «bobbysoxer» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BOBBYSOXER

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Translator English - Chinese

bobbysoxer
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bobbysoxer
570 millions of speakers

English

bobbysoxer
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

bobbysoxer
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

bobbysoxer
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

bobbysoxer
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Bobbysoxer
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উদ্ভিন্নযৌবনা মেয়ে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

minette
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bobbysoxer
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

junges Mädchen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

bobbysoxer
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

bobbysoxer
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bobbysoxer
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

bobbysoxer
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

bobbysoxer
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बॉबीसूक्सर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

genç kız
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ragazzina
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bobbysoxer
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

bobbysoxer
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bobbysoxer
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

bobbysoxer
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bobbysoxer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bobbysoxer
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bobbysoxer
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bobbysoxer

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BOBBYSOXER»

The term «bobbysoxer» is normally little used and occupies the 149.106 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BOBBYSOXER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bobbysoxer

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOBBYSOXER»

Discover the use of bobbysoxer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bobbysoxer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
bobbysoxer noun a teenage girl us, 7944 'Bobby socks' (ankle-high white socks, first recorded in 1927) as a generational trademark for American teenagers arrived on the national scene in June 1937, with a cover photograph in Life magazine ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
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The Myth of Popular Culture: From Dante to Dylan
Elvis as Bobbysoxer Like John F. Kennedy, Elvis Presley took off the fedora. He let the male brow shine, not because it was high or low, but because, unlike Sinatra's, it was, in Milton and Pope's sense, a beautiful brow, or face. Like Kennedy's ...
Perry Meisel, 2009
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The other side of me
His dream was to become a writer and when he found work as a reader for David Selznick, the dream began to materialise. Sidney worked hard and through the night writing stories for the movies and librettos for the musical theatre.
Sidney Sheldon, 2005
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Hollywood Classics Title Index to All Movies Reviewed in
Baby Be Good (see Brother Rat and a Baby) 25 Baby Take a Bow (1934) 3 Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer (1947) 11 Bachelor Girls (see Bachelor's Daughters) 9 Bachelor Knight (see Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer) Bachelor Mother (1939) 10 ...
John Howard Reid, 2010
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Hollywood Classics Index, Books 1-16: A-Z
... 15 Baby Take a Bow (1934) 3 Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer (1947) 11 Bachelor Girls (see Bachelor's Daughters) 9 Bachelor Knight (see Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer) Bachelor Mother (1939) 10 Bachelor's Daughters (1946) 9 Background ...
John Reid, 2006
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Dirt for Art's Sake: Books on Trial from "Madame Bovary" to ...
... 34 Asselineau, Charles, 26-27, 58-59 Atheism, 191 Atlantic, The, 205 Augier, Emile, 56 Augustine, Saint, xvii Auteil, Daniel, 232 Ayer, A. J., 210 Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer, The (film), 2 1517 Baker, Michael, 1 1 1 Balmer, Jean-Francois,  ...
Elisabeth Ladenson, 2012
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The Daffodil Journal
orange in the cup, depending on the season and location. Bobbysoxer is somewhat smaller and generally with only a thin rim of orange. Alex Gray described Bobbysoxer as "a lovely yellow perianth with deeper cup." Chit Chat, 7 Y-Y, and ...
8
The Doomsday Conspiracy
When a mysterious weather balloon crashes to earth in the Swiss Alps, the head of the NSA handpicks Robert Bellamy to track down and identify the ten known witnesses to the event.
Sidney Sheldon, 1992
9
Costume Design in the Movies: An Illustrated Guide to the ...
THE (28) Clark BABY DOLL (56) Johnsione BABY FACE (33) Oery-Kelly BABY MINE (27) Clark BABY TAKE A BOW (34) Royer BACHELOR AND THE BOBBYSOXER. THE (47) Steeenson BACHELOR APARTMENT (30) Rre BACHELOR ...
Elizabeth Leese, 1991
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TLA Film and Video Guide 2000-2001: The Discerning Film ...
The usually dapper Grant gets a chanceto let downhiswellordered hairby actinglike ateenager in this delightful Oscarwinning comedy, one of Grant's biggest boxoffice hits. When “bobbysoxer” Temple becomes infatuated with playboy/artist ...
David Bleiler, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOBBYSOXER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bobbysoxer is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ousted head of trade union claims he was victim of coup
... guy writes to another guy on the Internet: Kiss… kiss or those periodical love gushes to the monkey man in the style of a bobbysoxer. Well… «Politics.hu, Jun 15»
2
Sinatra's son gives look into legendary crooner's life
Clips of a Warner Bros. cartoon featuring chickens going crazy over a rooster version of “Frankie” illustrated the bobbysoxer craze over the ... «Citizens Voice, May 15»
3
Huntington's 'Come Back, Little Sheba': Frozen In Time, Steaming …
Moreover, Marie Polizzano's Marie manages to roll vixen and bobbysoxer into one, with Max Carpenter proudly shallow as her earthier suitor ... «WBUR, Apr 15»
4
Television's leading ladies are the new fashion icons
Peggy Olson's shift dresses and polo necks, preppy cardigans, A-line skirts and bobbysoxer plaids are neat, easy and practical. Minus a ... «The Australian, Apr 15»
5
TV Review: HBO's Frank Sinatra Documentary 'All or Nothing at All'
The L.A. concert footage gives All or Nothing at All a fair amount of heart and energy; it's the Sinatra many people younger than the bobbysoxer ... «Billboard, Apr 15»
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Sinatra: An American Icon review - too lightweight to capture the …
... address scrawled in shaky block lettering) rests alongside his faded grin on the cover of a bobbysoxer magazine called Swoont News. «The Guardian, Mar 15»
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SXSW Film Review: 'Tab Hunter Confidential'
... look at the 1950s Hollywood dreamboat who was living a closeted gay life even as he was marketed as every bobbysoxer's ideal boyfriend. «Variety, Mar 15»
8
What Bob Dylan Owes to Frank Sinatra — and Vice-Versa
Sinatra had been the most important figure in American popular music for twenty-five years: from his bobbysoxer days with the Tommy Dorsey ... «Jewish Daily Forward, Feb 15»
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Painterly to Precise: Richard Estes at the Currier Museum of Art
... over a stoop and a proto-bobbysoxer in a somewhat transparent dress observing the nearby action. These works of art remind the viewer that ... «PR Web, Feb 15»
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Suzi Quatro farewells Australia with hits and leather
(Don't tell me you didn't see ONJ's transformation from bobbysoxer sweet girl to sexy leather temptress in Grease as some kind of nod to the ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Bobbysoxer [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/bobbysoxer>. Apr 2024 ».
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