Word.ws English Dictionary

Groucho glasses

Groucho glasses noun: a novelty pair of horn-rimmed glasses with attached eyebrows, plastic nose, and bushy mustache, caricaturing Groucho Marx.

groucho glasses: a novelty pair of horn-rimmed glasses with attached eyebrows, plastic nose, and bushy mustache,...
Image: Sahustead, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

Groucho glasses pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A novelty pair of horn-rimmed glasses with attached eyebrows, plastic nose, and bushy mustache, caricaturing Groucho Marx.
    • Joe handed Groucho glasses to each of them and then indicated the guns.2000, Chloe Green, Going Out in Style, New York: Warner, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, LCC PS3557.R363 G65 2000, page 58
    • I felt like I was going down on a pair of Groucho glasses.2004 May, Gus Mattox, “Fuzz Down Below”, in Out, →ISSN, page 93
    Synonyms:
    beaglepuss

Examples of Groucho glasses in a sentence

  • Dan Menaker handed me a pair of Groucho glasses as I entered the room.2006 October 17, Joe Klein, “Afterword”, in Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics, Trade Paperback edition, Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN...
  • 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.2011, David Anderegg, Nerds: How Dorks, Dweebs, Techies, and Trekkies Can Save America and Why They Might Be Our Last Hope, New York...

Synonyms of Groucho glasses

Origin of Groucho glasses

Groucho from Groucho Marx + glasses

Questions about Groucho glasses

What does Groucho glasses mean?
Groucho glasses means a novelty pair of horn-rimmed glasses with attached eyebrows, plastic nose, and bushy mustache, caricaturing Groucho Marx.
How do you use Groucho glasses in a sentence?
Dan Menaker handed me a pair of Groucho glasses as I entered the room.
What part of speech is Groucho glasses?
Groucho glasses is a noun.

Words near Groucho glasses in the dictionary

  1. grouchily
  2. grouchiness
  3. grouchinesses
  4. grouching
  5. grouchingly
  6. Groucho glasses
  7. grouchy
  8. groud
  9. Groudle Glen
  10. grouds
  11. grough

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Groucho glasses (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Groucho glasses.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/groucho_glasses. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.