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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
teenage
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a teenage/adolescent boy
▪ A group of teenage boys stood talking in a group outside.
a teenage/youth gang
▪ At age nine, Pedro joined one of the youth gangs in his neighborhood, just to survive.
a young/teenage audience
▪ a magazine with a young audience
sb's childhood/teenage years
▪ the home in which she spent her childhood years
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
boy
▪ Men and teenage boys went fishing every day, usually in small groups.
▪ They were joined by teenage boys who surged in waves from the neighboring Mir-i-Arab Madrasa, a religious school.
▪ She kisses lightly, licks around the tip, and he's proud like a teenage boy.
▪ The Harlem riot erupted when an off-duty policeman killed James Powell, a teenage boy who had allegedly attacked him.
▪ Is this the kind of stuff for teenage boys?
▪ A strong teenage boy lost half his 140 pounds in seven weeks.
▪ Two teenage boys in the Rover car escaped uninjured and were helping police inquiries.
▪ They are teasing Navarro, but for teenage boys, they are surprisingly mild.
child
▪ Never since the first world war have we had homeless teenage children begging in the streets.
▪ Some had large dependent families, while others had teenage children able to make a substantial contribution.
▪ As a woman's teenage children leave home, she may interpret the loss of the first as a welcome freedom.
▪ Many parents experience deep pain and despair about their teenage children.
▪ When teenage children are involved, as full-time or part-time members of the new family, there is considerable added pressure.
▪ I am sure that that will be familiar to hon. Members with teenage children.
▪ Léonie recognized the blacksmith and his wife, their two teenage children.
▪ They may be the sole earners in households where men and teenage children are all unemployed.
daughter
▪ His marriage has broken up, he rarely sees his teenage daughter and he faces a bleak future.
▪ A middle-aged couple and their teenage daughter were sitting behind it.
▪ His wife and two teenage daughters were ferried about by an armed chauffeur.
▪ His eyes followed his teenage daughter as she walked around his bedroom, pocketing his belongings.
▪ The evidence was overwhelming, but none so precise and clear as that given by a Mr Bryant and his teenage daughter.
▪ When I knew her, some years ago, their teenage daughter was having to share a bedroom with her granny.
▪ They had come home during the height of the disturbances to discover their teenage daughter being ravished by a young police officer.
▪ Q My teenage daughter is on a diet.
girl
▪ Among teenage girls in Middlesbrough and Langbaurgh there were 12 abortions and 28 births in 1990 for every 1,000 teenagers.
▪ Suddenly Primo noticed that the teenage girl behind the table was staring at-him.
▪ It helps the crops grow, a museum guide explains to three teenage girls.
▪ A covey of teenage girls strolled by, their hands tucked into their back pockets.
▪ Two teenage girls and a woman were hurt.
▪ They were two teenage girls who had spent months in the same hospital but had never seen each other.
▪ Recently, my wife was on a local bus with a lot of teenage girls coming home from school.
▪ As he nears the corner a teenage girl on a bike swerves toward the curb beside Primo.
pregnancy
▪ Yet even so, the United States still leads most industrialized countries in teenage pregnancies, abortions and childbearing.
▪ The move is prompted in part by the government's determination to curb the number of teenage pregnancies.
▪ The facts are considerably different from these myths: Virtually all studies indicate that over four-fifths of teenage pregnancies are unintended.
▪ Four areas with low levels of education and training and high instances of teenage pregnancy will be targeted.
▪ Let us examine the causes of teenage pregnancy and the impact early childbearing frequently has on young women.
▪ I hope your book will reveal a new and refreshing view on teenage pregnancy and motherhood.
▪ In many cities, they sank into a vicious cycle of drugs, crime, teenage pregnancy, and welfare dependency.
son
▪ A move to the capital would give his two teenage sons greater career prospects.
▪ They were helping the teenage son get into a community college while they nursed his sister through a long surgical convalescence.
▪ I found out he was ten years older than me and divorced with two teenage sons.
▪ Tesco manager Bernard Andrews handed over £55,000 to the men who threatened to castrate his teenage sons.
▪ When my teenage son heard that the visitor was 60 and a bachelor, there was silence.
▪ The couple have 2 teenage sons.
▪ Indeed, now that I know about the Marmite and the teenage sons it seems more mysterious than ever.
▪ The burglary happened on the anniversary of his death, and while the woman's teenage son was asleep in the house.
years
▪ There may be some recovery when they go to school, but the dip will reassert itself during the teenage years.
▪ I was also well into my teenage years, and I wanted to get away from home, too.
▪ Some parents have unhappy or embarrassing memories of their own teenage years.
▪ In the teenage years, parental care takes different forms.
▪ I look back on my early teenage years with some amazement.
▪ The implications of such reluctance extend beyond the teenage years.
▪ In the sorry glare of my first teenage years the appearance of my grandparents was all of a rescue.
▪ Maria had her first child during her older teenage years.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the teenage music scene
▪ There has been a significant increase in teenage pregnancies recently.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A younger person marrying and taking on a teenage family may know very little about adolescents.
▪ Bobby and Ian both sacrifice a lot of time to Lisburn's teenage golfers and it's beginning to show.
▪ His eyes followed his teenage daughter as she walked around his bedroom, pocketing his belongings.
▪ Interviews with Moon and other teenage smokers reveal they smoke for the same reason adults do: They enjoy it.
▪ Most have either been nabbed by some one else or are into teenage bimbos or are gay.
▪ Some parents have unhappy or embarrassing memories of their own teenage years.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Teenage

Teenage \Teen"age\, n. The longer wood for making or mending fences. [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.

Teenage

Teenage \Teen"age`\ (t[=e]n"[=a]j), n. of or pertaining to a teenager; being in one's teens; as, a busload of teenage football fans; teenage inexperience.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
teenage

also teen age, teen-age; 1911, from teen + age (n.). Originally in reference to Sunday School classes. Teen-aged (adj.) is from 1922.

Wiktionary
teenage

Etymology 1 n. (context chiefly Kentish dialect English) brushwood for fences and hedges. Etymology 2

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

WordNet
teenage

adj. being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years" [syn: adolescent, teen, teenaged]

Wikipedia
Teenage (film)

Teenage is a 2013 documentary film directed by Matt Wolf and based on Jon Savage book Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture. In the documentary, Wolf attempts to bring to life the "prehistory" of youth culture which preceded and evolved into the concept of teenage culture in the 1950s and beyond. The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 20, 2013. and was released in a limited release and through video on demand on March 14, 2014, by Oscilloscope Laboratories.

Usage examples of "teenage".

Angelo ripped off a pair of gold and sapphire earrings which immediately replaced the brass pair he habitually wore, while Chubby picked an enormous necklace of garnets which he hung around his neck and preened like a teenage girl.

Geri, Kyle, and I waited with all the animation of the teenaged finalist in one of her sulks.

As a token gesture, one of the teenage boys, Nathan Gambon, was ordered out.

Starship Captain stood in the spotlight at the end of the runway turning round, round, round, looking out over the Ralfies and the globuloids, the computer nerds and the costumers, the brilliant intellectual misfits and the teenage malcontents, the fans who would be slans.

MacPherson addresses common concerns: -- How families deal with young and teenage children of sick and dying parents -- How family and friends provide better caregiving support -- Why resilience, anger, and humor sustain us and why platitudes are odious -- The health field: why doctors avoid death and often ignore dying patients, and advice for change -- Grieving: how long it lasts, how and why men and women grieve differently, what grievers can do, and how friends can help After Anna dies of breast cancer, you observe her husband, Jan, who learns how to grieve positively as he copes with both his pain and the struggles of a single parent raising two adolescents.

Theatre de la Huchette weep with her portrayal of the innocent, fate-doomed teenaged girl.

This man had a teenage son named Jamah, and I developed a crush on this boy, even though he always ignored me.

He loped off to the keyboardist and whispered in his ear, and then the keyboardist nodded and conferred with the two teenage guitarists.

American serviceman, Sergeant Carlos Lazo, who has two teenage sons living in Cuba who do not wish to follow their father in emigrating to the United States.

According to the highly reliable National Labor Committee of New York, Wal-Mart contractor Beximco is listed as paying teenage seamstresses in Bangladesh 18 cents an hour and their helpers 14 cents working an 80-hour seven-day week.

An imposing woman, Barbara dispersed a group of teenaged footpads from a table and cleared it off for Lorayne and Coedric.

Thirty or so five-year-olds bounced around the free fall gym like a barrage of demented ping pong balls when their creche mother, a plump pleasant downsider woman they called Mama Nilla, assisted by a couple of quaddie teenage girls, first let them out of their reading class.

She was totally adept at driving grown men crazy - a teenage nymphet with a hot body, a ton of curiosity, and no desire to get knocked up.

Figgis stared suspiciously at Richard until he got into the elevator and vanished from sight, then he returned his attention to the naughty teenage nymphets, none of whom, he was beginning to suspect, was ever likely to see twenty-nine again, lollipops or no lollipops.

Wherever Anthony looked there was evidence of war: men with missing limbs hobbled on wooden crutches, a teenage girl tried to flag down a passing taxi with the stump of an arm, Pajero Jeeps crammed with bearded mujaheddin brandishing weapons roared off toward the Khyber Pass and Afghanistan, makeshift ambulances filled with the wounded and the dying raced with screaming sirens back toward Peshawar.