Groucho glasses
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[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Groucho_Glasses.jpg/220px-Groucho_Glasses.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Groucho from Groucho Marx + glasses
Noun
[edit]Groucho glasses pl (plural only)
- A novelty pair of horn-rimmed glasses with attached eyebrows, plastic nose, and bushy mustache, caricaturing Groucho Marx.
- 2000, Chloe Green, Going Out in Style, New York: Warner, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, LCC PS3557.R363 G65 2000, page 58:
- Joe handed Groucho glasses to each of them and then indicated the guns.
- 2006 October 17, Joe Klein, “Afterword”, in Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics, Trade Paperback edition, Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, LCC PS3550.A1 P75 2006, page 378:
- Dan Menaker handed me a pair of Groucho glasses as I entered the room.
- 2011, David Anderegg, Nerds: How Dorks, Dweebs, Techies, and Trekkies Can Save America and Why They Might Be Our Last Hope, New York: Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 21:
- And there on the wall with trick sunglasses you can use to look behind you, Groucho glasses, and the glasses with the eyeballs on springs was something very, very creepy.