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telly

noun as in boob tube

noun as in idiot box

noun as in small screen

noun as in television

noun as in television set

Strongest matches

noun as in TV set

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He also appears to have said yes to almost every media invite to appear on telly, radio, newspapers, podcasts or online on any given day of the week.

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"I wasn't going to watch it but my mother-in-law and my mother were like 'come on, we’ll put it on, it's nice for her to see her daddy on telly'."

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"Just two regular blokes, having a go at beef rendang or apple pie. Hopefully we caught the attention of people who didn't normally watch swanky cooking programmes on telly."

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"When I was growing up I never imagined seeing Bollywood on 'normal telly', as I called it," Krishan, 41, said.

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"We met when we were enrolling for the Cubs. We were nine years old and started talking about music, stuff that was on the telly... everything that was sort of fashionable at that time."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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