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- noun Australia, New Zealand, slang A member of a 1950s
rock subculture ; a male member of the subculture.
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Examples
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The book was OK, a first-person narrative of a poor, intelligent, mixed-race young man, a "bodgie" - the Australian equivalent of a British "teddy boy" - leaving prison to little opportunity on the outside.
what i'm reading 2005
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The book was OK, a first-person narrative of a poor, intelligent, mixed-race young man, a "bodgie" - the Australian equivalent of a British "teddy boy" - leaving prison to little opportunity on the outside.
Archive 2005-04-01 2005
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Detectives have uncovered evidence of an amazing sex cult in which a bodgie "high priest" and a number of pretty teenagers indulged in wild orgies in a Sydney suburb.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents New Zealand. Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents 1926
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