TEENAGE, TEENAGER
ADJECTIVES
► TITS AND ZITS pert. to teenage love and sex → 1970s US sl.
► TWEEN-AGE relating to or intended for tweenagers → 1951 colloq.
NOUNS
► BOBBY BUNCH teenaged girls → 1942 US sl. (Bk.)
► BOBBY-SOCK BRIGADE teenaged girls → 1942 US sl. (Bk.)
► BOBBY-SOCKERS teenaged girls → 1942 US sl. (Bk.)
► PARKING of a teenage couple: parking a car in a discreet spot for petting and possible intercourse → 1950s US sl.
► SWOON SET teenaged girls → 1942 US sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS – PERSON
► BABY an underage or teenage boy → 1972 US homosexual sl.
► BACKFISCH a girl of about 16 or 17; a girl in late adolescence, a teenager → 1888
► BIDDY a teenage girl → 1982 African-American sl.
► BIMBETTE a young woman or adolescent girl, esp. one regarded as sexually attractive but thought to lack intelligence or distinctive personality; a bimbo, esp. an adolescent or teenage one → 1982 sl., derogatory
► CALF a young teenage girl → 1959 US sl.
► CHURN a teenage girl → 1949 US sl.
► GREASER a teenage hoodlum → 1960s Amer. sl.
► JUNIOR JERK a stupid teenager → 1942 US sl. (Bk.)
► JUNIOR MISS a young teenaged girl → 1975
► RAT a teenage hoodlum → 1960s Amer. sl.
► SUB-DEB a girl who will soon come out as a debutante; hence, broadly, a girl in her mid-teens → 1917 sl., chiefly US
► TEENSTER a teenaged person → 1942 US sl. (Bk.)
► TEENY-ROCKER a teenager or preteenager, esp. one who undertakes the hippie or rock-and-roll culture and way of life → 1966 US sl.
► TEENY-TINY a girl in her early teens → 1975 US sl. (Bk.)
► TITS-AND-ZITS dealing with teenage love and sex → 1970s US sl.
► TWEEN a person who is nearly a teenager → 1946 colloq., chiefly US
► TWEEN-AGE a person who is nearly a teenager → 1938 colloq., chiefly US
► TWEENAGER a child who is nearly a teenager → 1949 colloq., chiefly US
► TWEENER a person who is nearly a teenager → 1948
► TWEENIE a young teenager, or a pre-teenager → 1919 colloq., orig. US
► WEENY-BOPPER a young teenager (sometimes a pre-teen), typically a girl, who follows the latest fashions in clothes, pop music, etc. → 1972 sl.
► WHIGGER an adolescent male of Anglo-Saxon descent who acts out with African-American stereotypes; a wanna-be Afro-American → c1986 US playground sl.
► ZITFARM a teenager → 1981 US sl.
► ZITHEAD a teenager; the image is of acned mediocrity → 1990s US sl.