teenager:

A adolescent between the ages of 13 and 19. Also spelled, more rarely: teen ager.

SYNONYMS: bubble-gummer ; teener ; teenybop, teeny-bopper ; teeny-rocker , tweenager .

QUOTES:

(1) John D . MacDonald in The Dreadful Lemon Sky about young people: ' They are on the edge of life and think they're in the midst of it .'

(2) Cat (Angela Goethals) and V.I. Warshawski (Kathleen Turner) in V.I. Warshawski (1991):
-- Cat, a teenager: ' Do you have a kid? '
-- V.I. Warshawski: ' I had one, but I killed it when it turned into a teenager .'

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