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Retroterm of the Day: Mr. Peepers.

May 6, 2009 //  by David Keyes

Robinson J. Peepers, the bespectacled junior high school science teacher played by Wally Cox on television from 1952 to 1955, left his name behind as shorthand for timid, spectacles-wearing men like him:  Mr. Peepers.

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