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Teddy girl

noun

, (often lowercase)
  1. a rebellious British girl who, in the 1950s and early 1960s, affected the dress of the reign of Edward VII.
  2. a girl companion of Teddy boys.


teddy girl

noun

  1. a girl companion to a teddy boy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

The New Look may have turned your head, but you could have become a Teddy Girl in later years...

From BBC

Topping the film's unholy triangle, Rita Tushingham deserts her waif roles to play a strident Teddy girl, sexwise and pound-foolish.

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