bobbysocks

bobbysocks
/bob"ee soks'/, n.pl.
1. socks that reach above the ankle and are sometimes folded down to the ankle.
adj.
2. indicating or associated with the wearing of bobbysocks; adolescent: strictly a bobbysocks crowd; the bobbysocks generation.
Also, bobbysox, bobby socks, bobby sox. Also, bobsox.
[1940-45, Amer.; bobby (for bobbed, altered by assoc. with BOBBY PIN) + SOCKS1]

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