teener

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UK/ˈtiːnə/

noun

A teenager.

“a1968, Upton Sinclair, When I Was a Teener.”

Scrabble 6

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nounteener (plural teeners)

plural teeners

  1. datedA teenager.

    a1968, Upton Sinclair, When I Was a Teener.

    3 more examples

    1952, American Psychological Association, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, American Psychological Association (1952), p. 159, […] adult periods and emphasizes the importance of the total teener in a social milieu.

    1975, Fely J. Cruz, I Married a Newspaperman: A Collection of Articles, Verses and Short Stories, T. F. Valencia (1975), p. 1923, To a Teener Celebrating Her Last Teen Year

    Also, warn your teener that in this age of undisciplined classrooms, they are unlikely to have a teacher who demands that the class obey—(the major reason why European and Japanese school children score so much higher on ANY test than American kids).

    2000, George Harmon Smith, Education is Broken, But I Will Help You Fix It!: Hundreds of Tips to Help Your Child Through the Maze, Xlibris Corporation, page 42
  2. USslangA sixteenth of an ounce of a drug.

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