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Teddy Boy

Definition: Teddy Boy

Teddy Boy

Noun

1. (Brit) a tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Teddy Boy

Synonym: Ted (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Teddy Boy

Non-English Usage: "Teddy Boy" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Swedish (teddy boy).

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Modern Usage: Teddy Boy

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Teddy Boy in the Gutter (1967)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Teddy Boy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

teddy boy

29
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Teddy Boy

Language Translations for "Teddy boy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

huligan (hoodlum, hooligan, mug). (various references)

   

Czech

  

chuligán (hoodlum, hooligan). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τεντυμπόησ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

jampec (dildo, dude, fop, posh, spiv, swaggerer). (various references)

   

Manx

  

bockeen straiddey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eddytay oybay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

пижон (dude). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

mangup (hooligan, idler, lout, reveler, rowdy). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

teddy boy, ung ligist. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ชายหนุ่มในยุคปี 1950-60. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Teddy Boy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-d-e-o-t-y-y"

-3 letters: boded, doted, teddy, toddy, toyed.

-4 letters: bode, body, byte, debt, doby, dote, doty, dyed, eddo, eddy, obey, toby, tody, toed.

-5 letters: bed, bet, bey, bod, bot, boy, bye, deb, dey, doe, dot, dye, obe, odd, ode, ted, tod, toe, toy, tye, yet, yob, yod.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Teddy Boy


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 65 64 64 79      42 6F 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100101 01100100 01100100 01111001 00100000 01000010 01101111 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#100 &#100 &#121 &#32 &#66 &#111 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 0064 0064 0079      0042 006F 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54717070912368191

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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