teddy boys is a noun meaning "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". It carries one recorded sense.
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
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for teddy boys come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
147,478 entries in AltF Lexicon, every one with its syllables marked.
Look up another word