bobby sox

A form of bobby socks — Women's ankle socks.

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nounbobby sox pl (plural only)
  1. alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of bobby socks.

    She sat down and crossed her legs. Her bobby sox clashed with her saddle shoes. It was a deliberate Screw you.

    2014, James Ellroy, Perfidia, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 56
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    Many girls are wearing their “bobby sox,” but some of the boys are more formally dressed with a tie or two in evidence.

    2007, Mary Ann Neeley, Montgomery and the River Region: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, Montgomery, Ala.: Beers & Associates, L.L.C., →ISBN, page 104

    I also remember my sister Mimi and her friends, wearing their bobby sox, shrieking whenever Frank Sinatra came on the radio.

    2015, Paul F. Cummins, Confessions of a Headmaster, Pasadena, Calif.: XENO Books, Red Hen Press, →ISBN, page 81
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