Why is a tennis bracelet called a tennis bracelet?

[samclem]

@RickJay

It certainly does seem to be a 1980s term, though. That surprises me, but then, a lot of terms become so common that you assume they’ve been around forever. If you ask a hundred people when “Murphy’s Law” entered the language they’d probably all say it predates their birth by generations, but there is no evidence of the term existing prior to 1952 and most people wouldn’t have heard of it until the 1970s. (The general concept’s old, but that name for it is not.)

It’s been take back to 1949 recently. Just saying.