teen-ager

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See also: teenager and Teenager

English

Noun

teen-ager (plural teen-agers)

  1. Dated spelling of teenager.
    • 1997, James Pool, Suzanne Pool, chapter 8, in Who Financed Hitler, U.S.A., →ISBN, page 439:
      When one strong teen-ager came marching at the head of his section, carrying his five-year-old brother on his shoulders, a storm of applause rang through the air.
    • 2021 April 26, Kyle Chayka, “TikTok and the Vibes Revival”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 26 April 2021:
      If I had to pinpoint it, I’d say that the video’s vibe was chill Gen-Z good taste, the world of a teen-ager whose parents have given up on curfews and screen-time restrictions: midnight-basement-desktop-computer vibes.

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French

Noun

teen-ager m or f by sense (plural teen-agers)

  1. Alternative spelling of teenager

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