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   Sadie Hawkins

   noun

   • 1. an event or occasion, typically a school dance, to which female students ask male students to accompany them in a reversal of traditional gender roles: US "a junior high Sadie Hawkins dance"

   Word Origin 1930s: from the comic strip L'il Abner by American cartoonist Al Capp, in which the character Sadie Hawkins takes part in a race held for unmarried women to chase after and catch husbands.

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