Cosby sweater
English
Alternative forms
- Bill Cosby sweater
Etymology
A man (Philip Emeagwali) wearing a Cosby sweater.
From the sweaters worn by the character Cliff Huxtable, played by Bill Cosby, on the American sitcom The Cosby Show (1984-1992).
Noun
Cosby sweater (plural Cosby sweaters)
- An oversized sweater featuring a loud, kitschy pattern.
- 2006, Joe Kurmaskie, Momentum Is Your Friend: The Metal Cowboy and His Pint-Sized Posse Take on America, Breakaway Books, published 2011, →ISBN:
- I taste blood in my mouth while a Japanese gentleman in plastic snowshoes and a colorful Cosby sweater snaps photos of a landscape leveled by forest fires a decade ago.
- 2012, Brad Getty, Dads Are the Original Hipsters, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 19:
- So hipsters, next time you're digging through the racks at the local thrift store for the perfect Cosby sweater for your annually unoriginal ugly Christmas sweater party, remember this…
- 2013, Chris Rodell, Use All the Crayons!, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 20:
- A guy in a Cosby sweater lamented he didn't bring along some Trivial Pursuit cards.
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