TELLY meaning: Television, often informal British term

We found 25 dictionaries that define the word telly:

General (20 matching dictionaries)

telly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
telly: Merriam-Webster
telly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
telly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
telly: Collins English Dictionary
telly: Vocabulary.com
Telly, telly: Wordnik
telly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
telly: Wiktionary
telly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
telly: Infoplease Dictionary
telly: Dictionary.com
Telly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
telly: Rhymezone
'Telly: Britih-American Dictionary
telly: FreeDictionary.org
telly: Mnemonic Dictionary
telly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

telly: Encyclopedia

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)

telly, telly: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
telly: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
Telly: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (colloquial) Television.
▸ noun:  (colloquial) A television set.
▸ noun:  (colloquial) Telegraph.
▸ noun:  (colloquial) Telephone.
▸ noun:  (colloquial) Teleport.
▸ noun:  (colloquial) Telecommunication.
▸ noun:  (US, Canada, chiefly MTE, slang) A hotel or motel.
▸ adjective:  (informal, chiefly of a literary work) Inclined to telling (by explicitly stating facts), instead of showing (by conveying an impression so that events are described in the narrative).