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☆ teddy bear
a child's stuffed toy made to look like a bear cub
Etymology: after Teddy, nickname for Theodore Roosevelt: first used (1902) after a cartoon by C. K. Berryman, containing a small cub in jocular allusion to his fondness for big-game hunting
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