单词 | soccer mom |
释义 | > as lemmassoccer mom soccer mom n. North American colloquial a woman whose child plays, or whose children play, soccer; spec. (often depreciative) a suburban middle-class woman who spends a lot of time actively and enthusiastically supporting her young child or children's sporting (and other) activities.The term was popularized in media coverage of the 1996 United States presidential election as representative of an influential voting bloc and is now often used with specific cultural and political connotations; cf. quots. 1996, 2002. ΚΠ 1973 Argus (Fremont, Calif.) 21 Sept. 4/1 You should see my son play—he is a tiger. [signed] Soccer Mom, Fremont. 1982 Morning Union (Springfield, Mass.) 14 Oct. 11/4 The Soccer Moms and the boys and girls raise $5,000 to $8,000 annually through door-to-door sales of candy. 1996 Washington Post 21 July c4/3 The president..is sending a message to a voter Castellanos calls ‘soccer mom’: the overburdened, middle income working mother who ferries her kids from soccer practice to scouts to school. 2002 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 20 May b1 Soccer moms became a sought-after demographic block. But the phrase implied a middle-brow, middle-class suburban stereotype, the comfortable stay-at-home mom behind the wheel of her SUV, ferrying her kids from soccer field to soccer field, without a lot of interest in foreign affairs or public policy. 2006 P. McLaren in O.-P. Moisio & J. Suoranta Educ. & Spirit of Time ii. vi. 109 Soccer moms in SUVs festooned with images of Old Glory..slink into the local sex shop in search of red, white and blue thongs for couch potato husbands. < as lemmas |
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