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Teddy Boy; Teddy; Ted
noun
a member of a youth cult of the mid- to late 1950s, characterised by a style of dress loosely inspired by fashions of the Edwardian era (1901–10) UK, 1954
Edward abbreviates to Teddy and Ted. Teddy boys referred to themselves as Teds.- [R]espectable screwsmen [thieves] daren’t walk home from their gaffs at night for fear being chivved for teddy-boys, and left to bleed to death over the ragwort in a bomb-site[.] — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 41, 1956
- [O]utside their houses there were Teds[.] — Colin McInnes, Absolute Beginners, 1959
- I ask this copper where we’re going, and he says the Magistrates’ Court in London. “Where all the naughty teds end up,” he says. — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 54, 1964
- [T]he spivs and wideboys of the late 1940’s and their descendants, the Teddies. — Geoffrey Fletcher, Down Among the Meths Men, p. 9, 1966
- [A]geing Teddy Boys in jackets with green velvet facings, comic sideburns, puffing at the pace. — Richard Neville, Play Power, p. 116, 1970
- [P]apers screaming about Teddy boys razoring cinema seats — Martin King & Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 223, 1999
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