bobby soxer

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1. historicalIn the 1940s, a young woman or teenage girl who was a zealous fan of traditional pop, especially of Frank Sinatra.

   From my mother I’d learned that “nice” people should always frequent “nice” places, but here was Maria, certifiably nice, who relished the diner, twirled on the metal stool like a bobby-soxer, and punched out tunes on the jukebox.

   1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room Is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994

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   After having played both Judy Graves and Corliss Archer, Shirley Temple finally cemented her latter-day reputation as Hollywood's ultimate bobby-soxer when she starred in the only film to use the term in its title: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947).

   2006, Ilana Nash, American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-century Popular Culture, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 165