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Bodgie (noun) means a young man belonging to a rebellious youth style of the 1950s, similar to a teddy boy.

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A young man belonging to a rebellious youth style of the 1950s, similar to a teddy boy.

"In Toowoomba, Magistrate Kearney was up in arms over the bodgies and widgies in town – those dressed-up teenagers with their spruced hair and polka-dot dresses who loitered around the city streets. They were seen as a threat to society." — William Stokes, Westbrook (2010)

"The New Zealand public and press largely shared his view of bodgies as juvenile delinquents who posed a social threat. The bodgie soon became a national bogey man, with alarmist newspaper reports about bodgie behaviour." — Roy Shuker, Understanding Popular Music (2001)

"Unlike McDonald, Manning noted with dismay that traditional relations between the sexes were broken down in bodgie groups. Bodgies, he argued, were disturbed youth, hooligans, maladjusted." — Lesley Johnson, The Modern Girl: Girlhood and Growing Up (1993)

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