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Teddy boy

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

Etymology: < Teddy, nickname for Edward

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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