teen-ager

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^[1], 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^[2], 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.

Anagrams

• generate, green tea, renegate

French

Noun

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

1. Alternative spelling of teenager

Further reading

• “teen-ager”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.