TEDDY BOYS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teddy boys mean? 

• TEDDY BOYS (noun)
  The noun TEDDY BOYS has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: TEDDY BOYS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEDDY BOYS (noun)

Sense 1

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

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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("teddy boys" is a kind of...):

youth subculture (a minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of its members; often characterized by its adoption of a particular music genre)