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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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