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Teddy Boys

Definition: Teddy Boys

Teddy Boys

Noun

1. A British youth subculture that first appeared in the mid-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.

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

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Crosswords: Teddy Boys

English words defined with "teddy boys": bikersrockers. (references)

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Modern Usage: Teddy Boys

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

I Teddy boys della canzone (1960)

Le Notti dei Teddy Boys (1959)

Général Lee et ses teddy boys (1979)

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

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Modern Translations: Teddy Boys

Language Translations for "teddy boys"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

eddytay oysbay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Teddy Boys

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-3 letters: oddest.

-4 letters: besot, boded, bodes, bytes, debts, doest, dosed, doted, dotes, obeys, soddy, styed, teddy, toddy, toyed.

-5 letters: beds, best, bets, beys, bode, bods, body, bots, boys, byes, byte, debs, debt, deys, doby, does, dose, dost, dote, dots, doty, dyed, dyes, eddo, eddy, obes, obey, odds, odes, oyes, stey, stob, stye, sybo, teds, toby, tods, tody, toed, toes, toys, tyes, yobs, yods.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Teddy Boys


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

54 65 64 64 79      42 6F 79 73

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

    

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

01010100 01100101 01100100 01100100 01111001 00100000 01000010 01101111 01111001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#100 &#100 &#121 &#32 &#66 &#111 &#121 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 0064 0064 0079      0042 006F 0079 0073

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

5471707091236819185

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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