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- noun Plural form of
telly .
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Examples
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I pass a local “swamp” type estate on the way to work – you can see their huge tellies from the main road.
The Inside Story of the Dog Who Changed My Life « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Sally's first TV role was Vicki in the iconic 'Steptoe And Son' and she has appeared in numerous 'tellies', the most popular being 'Bergerac' and 'Casualty' for the BBC and 'The Bill' and 'Funny Man' for ITV.
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In a season where our tellies are riddled with Next Top Models, and a week when X Factor entered its fabulous "At the judges 'fake houses" round, where auditionees line up by Simon's swimming pool to articulate their hunger for fame in song and stretched Lycra, the phrase sounds again.
Up front: Eva Wiseman Eva Wiseman 2010
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Britons went out in their droves to buy new tellies ahead of the World Cup and don't need another one yet.
It'll be lonely this Christmas for the retailers – and that's barely the start of their problems 2011
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Other families must have had similar early morning epiphanies because they began tearing down portions of their sombre kitchens and hammering up American-style "breakfast bars", complete with portable tellies to watch Anne Diamond and Nick Owen on Good Morning Britain.
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On that joyfully dystopian day, we'll sit in our living rooms watching sport dribble endlessly from our tellies into our brains.
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I shall be serious and not make droll comments about what appears to be a whole show centring around the blonde one from S Club being chased around the Lidl trolley stand by a fractious brontosaurus, while the rakish one from Armstrong and Miller stands by a bank of Aiwa tellies shouting Alpha seven!
Grace Dent's TV OD 2011
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Of the million tellies sold in Britain last month not one was analogue.
Are the Tories in danger of wasting millions on the radio equivalent of Betamax? 2010
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But what has really kept us glued to our Sunday night tellies is the whole upstairs-downstairs soap opera.
TV review: Downton Abbey, Stephen Fry And The Great American Oil Spill Sam Wollaston 2010
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LCD TVs, praised as being greener than old-style tellies because they consume much less power, may actually be speeding climate change, a chemical expert has warned.
‘HD TV Gas’ 17,000 Times Worse for the Planet Than Carbon Dioxide | Disinformation 2008
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