Poodle-skirted

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Wearing a poodle skirt. not-comparable

    "All around them, some 40 local teen-agers, poodle-skirted and Brylcreemed into 1950's authenticity, are dancing a loosely choreographed number of Mr. Lewis's 1958 hit."

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"All around them, some 40 local teen-agers, poodle-skirted and Brylcreemed into 1950's authenticity, are dancing a loosely choreographed number of Mr. Lewis's 1958 hit."

Etymology

From poodle skirt + -ed.

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