teddy boy

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsTed

   Broadertough guy

   United Kingdom

Questions about teddy boy

What does teddy boy mean?

teddy boy means "a tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes".

What is another word for teddy boy?

Close synonyms include Ted. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is teddy boy a common word?

teddy boy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.