teddy boys in English
noun
1
(in the 1950s) a young man of a subculture characterized by a style of dress based on Edwardian fashion and a liking for rock and roll music.
Even in the area of alternative fashion in the post 1945 period, the world of Teddy boys , mods and rockers, hippies, punks, new Romantics, and so on, the driving force has been a masculine one.
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1. 24 The wartime spivs, the teddy boys and the mods each had their own distinctive hair style.
2. Bikers - originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers rockers youth subculture - a minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended