bobby soxer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.15 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
In the 1940s, a young woman or teenage girl who was a zealous fan of traditional pop, especially of Frank Sinatra.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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)."