teenage

Definition

Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.

Etymology

From -teen + age. First attested in 1921.

Example Sentences

• "Fred's teenage years were the most difficult of times."
• "It was a teenage girl with Cleopatraesque black hair; tight jeans and a tie dyed T-shirt cut off to show her stud-pierced navel."
• "Coristine is one of a team of teenage and twentysomething software engineers, apparently conscripted by Musk in his largely unchecked war against bureaucracy."

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