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bobby socks

(also bobby sox)
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Definition of bobby socks

noun

North American
  • short socks reaching just above the ankle, as worn by teenage girls in the 1940s and 1950s.

Origin:

compare with bob2 in the sense 'cut short'

bobby socks in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of bobby socks in the US English dictionary