variants
also teles
as in TVs
an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound
my mum has had the same telly since I was but a lad
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televisions
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Will that still be haunting the coast of Madagascar when televisions have been thrown away and forgotten?—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026 -
Cigarette mountains, exploding drum kits, grimy city streets and televisions tossed from windows flash by in rapid succession.—
SPIN Staff,
SPIN,
8 May 2026
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“Tellies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tellies. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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