Groucho glasses

English

couple wearing Groucho glasses

Etymology

Groucho from Groucho Marx + glasses

Noun

Groucho glasses pl (plural only)

1. 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.

   • 2004 May, Gus Mattox, “Fuzz Down Below”, in Out, →ISSN, page 93:

     I felt like I was going down on a pair of Groucho glasses.

   • 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.

Synonyms

• beaglepuss