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▪ I. teenage, a. and n.2 orig. N. Amer.|ˈtiːneɪdʒ|
Also teen-age, teen age.
[f. teen n.2 + age n.]
A. adj.
1. Designating someone in their teens.
1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 11 Mar. 8/2 All ‘teen age’ girls of the city are cordially invited to attend the mass meeting to be held this evening. 1935Amer. Speech X. 192/1 The dress is probably slinky and suitable for the teen-age group. 1948Evening Standard 22 Mar. 6/4 The teen-age twins..reject severe masculine fashions. 1957Time 2 Sept. 62/2 Starting as a teen-age bank runner, he had become president of the Bank of Commerce. 1977Dædalus Fall 83 Society may wish to eliminate teenage street corner gangs, but this does not lead sociologists to write articles on the optimal techniques for eliminating such gangs.
2. Pertaining to, suitable for, or characteristic of a young person in his or her teens.
1942Amer. Speech XVII. 41 Teen age hats now on sale. Teenage apparel of all types. 1950N. Streatfeild Mothering Sunday 200 All those sweetly pretty teen-age frocks. 1967M. Argyle Psychol. Interpersonal Behaviour viii. 140 They [sc. normal adolescents] too show a tremendous conformity to the group, for example in clothes, and in the use of teenage slang. 1979L. Meynell Hooky & Villainous Chauffeur i. 14 The first time I ever saw Maude..was at some teenage party.
B. n.2 (Usu. as two words.) The period of a person's life between the ages of thirteen and nineteen inclusive, the teens; an age falling between these limits.
1934Webster s.v. Teen adj., Boys of teen age. 1941Jrnl. Pediatrics XIX. 392 The pediatrician's almost unrestricted field..begins shortly after the birth of his patient and does not terminate until the ‘teen’ age is well advanced. 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 8 Five hours of teenage to go... Then I wander into that noisome Brobdingnagian world the child sees as adulthood. 1973Sci. Amer. Dec. 135/3 Readers of teen age and beyond will find in its plain language and concrete situations a smooth path to an ethical discussion as deepgoing as the dilemmas of life and death.
Hence ˈteenaged a., of teen age; so ˈteenagedness.
1952Listener 31 Jan. 183/1, I hope that modern youth enter ‘teen-agedness’ with a suitably elated conviction of its own self-importance. 1953Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) §383/1 The teenaged set;..a teenaged person. 1971J. Gray Red Lights on Prairies i. 10 In one two-roomed house there was a family of seven, including teen-aged boys and girls. 1981Times 4 Mar. 6/5 A teenaged schoolboy ambulance driver.
▪ II. teenage
see teen v.2 |