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TEDDY BOY

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Overview

TEDDY BOY (noun)
  The noun TEDDY BOY has 1 sense:

1. a tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothesplay

  Familiarity information: TEDDY BOY used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


TEDDY BOY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Ted; Teddy boy

Hypernyms ("Teddy boy" is a kind of...):

plug-ugly; tough guy (someone who bullies weaker people)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)


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