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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A teenage girl.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s); -- sometimes used for any adolescent girl, especially one following the latest youthful fashion .

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  • noun US a teenage girl wearing bobby socks

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s)

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Examples

  • That would be like me using the term bobbysoxer now.

    New Doctor Who Rogers 2006

  • The bobbysoxer is going nuts for Frankie, but the power of butter will soon snap her out of it.

    3 – June – 2009 – The Bleat. 2009

  • So have the carpet beater, the Sinatra-swooning bobbysoxer, typewriter, and car engine crank.

    Grammy Awards Board KILLS Polka Category To Stay 'Relevant'!! 2009

  • Prissy Jones was just your average bobbysoxer growing up in a quiet small town, in love with comics and often bullied by this girl at school named Betty, who looks an awful lot like Bettie Page.

    Looking forward to a new Dawn… 2009

  • When Miss Snark was a bobbysoxer certain college professors required textbooks they had written for the course syllabus.

    Snarkling Sunday! Miss Snark 2005

  • Not to Scot though, the whole thing is a victory for Mitt's dashing private sector values...ghod you can hear Scot sighing like a bobbysoxer in every paragraph.

    The Chimes at Midnight 2005

  • Instead she had command of jive talk, adolescent slang, and high school double-talk which would be meaningless to any but another American bobbysoxer.

    The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein Heinlein, Robert A. 1966

  • You know, I felt like a bobbysoxer, I saw all the young actors.

    NYT > Home Page By MELENA RYZIK 2011

  • "You know," he said, "I felt like a bobbysoxer, I saw all the young actors.

    NYT > Home Page By MELENA RYZIK 2011

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