Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. (context dated UK English) A young man who wore clothes supposedly characteristic of the Edwardian period and tended to take part in rowdy behaviour.
Wikipedia
Teddy Boy (also known as Ted) is a British subculture typified by young men wearing clothes that were partly inspired by the styles worn by dandies in the Edwardian period, which Savile Row tailors had attempted to re-introduce in Britain after the Second World War.
"Teddy Boy" is a song by Paul McCartney and was first released on his first solo album McCartney, released in April 1970 after the Beatles disbanded.
Teddy Boy is an EP by French electro house artist Kavinsky released on January 16, 2006.
Teddy Boy is a subculture.
Teddy Boy may also refer to:
- Teddy Boy (EP), an electro house recording Kavinsky
- "Teddy Boy" (song), a rock song by Paul McCartney
- Teddy boy cut, a hairstyle
- Teddy Boy, a manhua series best known in film adapted form as the Young and Dangerous franchise
- Teddy Boy Blues, a video game by Sega.
Usage examples of "teddy boy".
Maggie Jenn exiled herself to the Isle of Paise after her Teddy boy died.
He had read in the newspapers about the Teddy Boy gangs that roamed South London, but the odd youth he had seen in pseudo-Edwardian clothes had seemed harmless and stupid enough.
He was an ex-Teddy Boy, ex-army conscript, ex-railway worker, then an employee on the Manchester docks.
He had the idea that if American juvenile delinquents could consume millions of dollars' worth of heroin every year, so could their Teddy boy and girl cousins.
Later that day I turned back an attack by a German Stuka that strafed the main street, an attack by a Samurai warrior, an attack by a Moro with a huge batangas knife, an attack by a knight on a black horse-he carried a couched lance-and attacks by a Hun, a Visigoth, a Vandal, a Viet Cong with a machine gun, an Amazon with a mace, a Puerto Rican street mugger, a Teddy Boy with a cosh, a deranged and drugged disciple of Kali with a knotted silk rope, a Venetian swordsman with a left-hand dagger, and I forget which all that first day.