What is the meaning of teddy boys?

noun

  • A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
  • 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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