Usually means: Television, often informal British term.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word telly:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. telly: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. telly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. telly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. telly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. telly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Telly, telly: Wordnik
  7. telly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. telly: Wiktionary
  9. telly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. telly: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. telly: Dictionary.com
  12. Telly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. telly: Rhymezone
  14. 'Telly: Britih-American Dictionary
  15. telly: Free Dictionary
  16. telly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. telly: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. telly: Encyclopedia

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. telly, telly: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. telly: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. Telly: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook

(Note: See tellies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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).

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