Oscar the Grouch

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Proper noun

Oscar the Grouch

Oscar the Grouch and a Witch in 1976.
  1. A cranky, antisocial puppet character who lives in a garbage can, from the children's television show Sesame Street.
    • 1989, Linda Gray Sexton, Points of Light, Harper Mass Market Paperbacks,, →ISBN, page 97:
      If I'd had a trash can I'd have looked a lot like Oscar the Grouch.
    • 1989, J. Steven Reznick, Perspectives on Behavioral Inhibition, University of Chicago Press,, →ISBN, page 27:
      The room was equipped with a drum and drumsticks, two large balls, three large building blocks, a stuffed cloth horse, a train large enough to sit on, and a pop-up “Oscar the Grouch” toy. The procedure lasted ten minutes.
    • 1989, Joan J. Zilbach, Children in Family Therapy: Treatment and Training, Haworth Press,, →ISBN, page 166:
      Meanwhile Brooke was sitting on Mother’s lap sucking on her pacifier while Terri build a low enclosed building with two sheep inside and Oscar-the-Grouch coming outside.
    • 2002, James Earl Hardy, The Day Eazy-E Died, Alyson Publishing, →ISBN, page 78:
      “You got a bank at home?”
      “Yes, my piggy bank.”
      “Ah. What kinda bank is it?”
      Oscar the Grouch. Uncle D gave it to me for my birthday, remember?”
    • 2002, Jennifer Hanson, “The Real Freshman Handbook”, in A Totally Honest Guide to Life on Campus, Houghton Mifflin Books, page 41:
      You thought something was funny when Dad donned his Oscar the Grouch suit and hopped in the trash can after the evening news, rope in hand.
    • 2004, Paul McCusker, The Mill House, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 105
      Nicholas was hopeful that the pop culture displays would give them something to talk about. It didn't. Fran and Ron gave a cursory acknowledgement to Howdy Doody, Oscar the Grouch, and only a brief glace at Dorothy’s ruby-red slippers.
    • 2003, Laurie Faria Stolarz, Blue Is for Nightmares, Llewellyn Worldwide,, →ISBN, page 82:
      I notice a pair of Oscar the Grouch flip-flops, standing in the last stall.
    • 2007, “Tim Beyers, Quick Take: United Undone”, in The Motley Fool:
      Cranky employees harassed by justifiably cranky customers ... Oscar the Grouch would be thrilled. Investors, not so much.

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