Well attestedIndirect, via a person or title
Bosox
noun · first attested 20th century
The word exists because two American cities fielded a team called the Sox and headline writers had to tell them apart.
The Boston Red Sox baseball team.
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- 20th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Boston
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Bosox
Boston and Chicago both carried Sox in their team names by 1908, so sportswriters welded the city onto the sock: Bosox for Boston, Chisox for Chicago. Neither is an official club name; both came out of the press box, where a short word fits a narrow column. The pair was most common in American sports writing in the 1970s and 1980s.
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