TEEN


Meaning of TEEN in English

I. adjective

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■ NOUN

pregnancy

There is a growing recognition of the debilitating effects of teen drug use, teen pregnancy and violence.

We can debate all we want over funding for this or that well-meaning government program aimed at reducing teen pregnancy .

So alarming is the frequency of adolescent childbirth that President Clinton recently announced a community-oriented campaign to prevent teen pregnancy .

Lake County leads the region in teen pregnancies .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

teen actresses

teen smoking

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Brown is a big color at the teen level.

In fact, over the past four years, total teen volunteer hours increased by a magnificent 17 percent.

Next up could be photos in teen magazines and fan letters.

So alarming is the frequency of adolescent childbirth that President Clinton recently announced a community-oriented campaign to prevent teen pregnancy.

The resulting book falls somewhere between the teen diary / confessional genre and the academic feminist treatise.

There is a growing recognition of the debilitating effects of teen drug use, teen pregnancy and violence.

Yes, teen birth rates have gone down a little of late.

II. noun

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■ ADJECTIVE

early

Scar tissue all right; a birthmark she'd had removed in early teens in case it turned malignant.

By her early teens she was under contract to a management firm.

His is a temperament well calculated to flatter and intrigue readers in the early teens and to draw them into vicarious adventure.

He comes to collect her when she's in her early teens , and makes her his wife.

People tend to read Rebecca in their early teens .

Later, in my early teens , I read each of themthe first of my many self-imposed reading programs.

During his early teens , McKenzie was a competent soccer player but, as he grew his nimble-footed agility was lost.

By his early teens he was an accomplished pianist and guitarist.

late

Iced teas, especially Snapple and Arizona, have been hits with consumers in their late teens and early 20s.

Tijuana in the late teens already was developing the reputation of a wide-open town.

Two men in their late teens or early twenties came into the office and pointed their guns at the cashiers face.

She could have been in her late teens , twenties, or perhaps early thirties.

We particularly need people in their late teens - early twenties age group - to promote our young, slim image!

The trick facing the milk industry is to keep kids in the milk habit into their late teens .

As I got nearer, I saw they were young people, mostly in their late teens and early twenties.

There were four black guys in the car, late teens to early 20s.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Marijuana use by teens doubled between 1992 and 1995.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

The teen said yes, Arancibia told police, and the three teens surrounded the couple.

The law exempts youths accompanied by adults, working teens and married teens.

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