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Teddy Boys

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Noun

1. teddy boys

a British youth subculture that first appeared in the 1950s; mainly from unskilled backgrounds, they adopted a pseudo-Edwardian dress code and rock'n'roll music; proletarian and xenophobic, they were involved in race riots in the United Kingdom

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Teddy Boys

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noun
1. 
(in Britain, esp in the mid-1950s) one of a cult of youths who wore mock Edwardian fashions, such as tight narrow trousers, pointed shoes, and long sideboards
. Often shortened to: ted
2. 
any tough or delinquent youth

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Teddy Boys

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1. 
a British youth of the 1950s or early 1960s who affected flashy dress, esp. of a neo-Edwardian style
2.  British, Informal
any rough or delinquent youth

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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