/bob"ee soks'/ , n.pl.
1. socks that reach above the ankle and are sometimes folded down to the ankle.
adj.
2. indicating or associated with the wearing of bobbysocks; adolescent: strictly a bobbysocks crowd; the bobbysocks generation.
Also, bobbysox, bobby socks, bobby sox . Also, bobsox .
[ 1940-45, Amer.; bobby (for bobbed, altered by assoc. with BOBBY PIN) + SOCKS 1 ]