Sadie Hawkins day
Sadie Hawkins day a day early in November on which, according to a ‘tradition’ in the cartoon strip Li'l Abner by the US cartoonist Alfred Gerald Caplin (1909–79), a woman may propose marriage to or demand a date from a man; Sadie Hawkins herself is a character in the series.
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