alternateen

plural alternateens · alternative alterna-teen

1. A teenager with an interest in alternative rock and the associated youth counterculture, particularly with visible markers such as piercings.

   Even if you’re a cynical, pierced, and multiply-tattooed alterna-teen, you won’t have a dry eye after this one.

   2003, Jim DeRogatis, Milk It: Collected Musings on the Alternative Music Explosion of the ’90s,, Da Capo Press, page 83

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   By the time high school rolled around, I had become a sullen alternateen who wore a lot of black and was perpetually growing her bangs out.

   2011, Tracy Nectoux, Out Behind the Desk, page 122