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Sadie Hawkins Day
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English
thumb|1944 reenactment of Sadie Hawkins Day race
Etymology
After a character in the comic strip Li'l Abner.
Proper noun
Sadie Hawkins Day
A day on which women romantically pursue men instead of the traditional other way around, held informally in the United States on various dates but usually in November.
Related terms
en Sadie Hawkins dance
en terms derived from fiction eponyms