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What (who) is teddy boy - definition
MEMBER OF A BRITISH SUBCULTURE
Teddy boy; Teddy boy (youth culture); Teddy Boy (youth culture); Teddy Boys; Teddy Girl; Teddyboy; Teddy Boy (subculture); Teddy girl; Teddy Girls
![[[Bill Haley]] and [[the Comets]] wearing [[tartan]] shawl collar jackets associated with the rockabilly subculture, 1956](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BillHaley.JPG?width=200 "[[Bill Haley]] and [[the Comets]] wearing [[tartan]] shawl collar jackets associated with the rockabilly subculture, 1956")
![creepers]] fashionable during the 1950s](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Creepers shoes White.jpg?width=200 "creepers]] fashionable during the 1950s")
![[[Ford Zephyr]], a popular vehicle for Teds](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ford.zephyr.six.arp.750pix.jpg?width=200 "[[Ford Zephyr]], a popular vehicle for Teds")
![[[Shakin' Stevens]] wearing electric blue drape jacket, 1970s](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walsall 1974 Shakin Stevens and the Sunsets.jpg?width=200 "[[Shakin' Stevens]] wearing electric blue drape jacket, 1970s")
Teddy boy
(Teddy boys)
A Teddy boy is a man who dresses in a style that became popular in the 1950's. Teddy boys were associated with early rock and roll music, and often regarded as bad or violent. (BRIT)
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Teddy Boy
The Teddy Boys or Teds were a mainly British youth subculture of the mid 1950s to mid 1960s who were interested in rock and roll and R&B music, wearing clothes 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
¦ noun Brit. (in the 1950s) a young man of a subculture characterized by a style of dress based on Edwardian fashion, hair slicked up in a quiff, and a liking for rock-and-roll music.
Origin
from Teddy, familiar form of the given name Edward (with ref. to the style of dress).
Wikipedia
Teddy Boy
The Teddy Boys or Teds were a mainly British youth subculture of the early 1950s to mid-1960s who were interested in rock and roll and R&B music, wearing clothes 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.
Examples of use of teddy boy
1. He and his friends, dressed in Teddy Boy gear — black leather jacket, winkle–picker shoes and greased quiff — used to practise in the family bathroom because it was the best place to get the echo they needed for their songs.
2. Like a fool, I believed their claims of shinier and glossier tresses, though in reality my hair has always looked exactly the same — bar a mild flirtation with a Teddy Boy quiff in my youth.
3. On another patch of pavement, a dozen leather–clad men with lacquered teddy–boy haircuts twitch along to taped rocknroll, and a band of skateboarders flip ineptly over a wooden carton.