Meanings
- pluralplural onlyA novelty pair of horn-rimmed glasses with attached eyebrows, plastic nose, and bushy mustache, caricaturing Groucho Marx.
I felt like I was going down on a pair of Groucho glasses.
2004 May, Gus Mattox, “Fuzz Down Below”, in Out, →ISSN, page 933 more examples
Joe handed Groucho glasses to each of them and then indicated the guns.
2000, Chloe Green, Going Out in Style, New York: Warner, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, LCC PS3557.R363 G65 2000, page 58Dan Menaker handed me a pair of Groucho glasses as I entered the room.
2006 October 17, Joe Klein, “Afterword”, in Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics, Trade Paperback edition, Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, LCC PS3550.A1 P75 2006, page 378And there on the wall with trick sunglasses you can use to look behind you, Groucho glasses, and the glasses with the eyeballs on springs was something very, very creepy.
2011, David Anderegg, Nerds: How Dorks, Dweebs, Techies, and Trekkies Can Save America and Why They Might Be Our Last Hope, New York: Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 21Synonyms: beaglepuss
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA novelty pair of horn-rimmed glasses with attached eyebrows, plastic nose, and bushy mustache, caricaturing Groucho Marx.
Origin
Groucho from Groucho Marx + glasses
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