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teens

[ teenz ]

plural noun

  1. the numbers 13 through 19, especially in a progression, as the 13th through the 19th years of a lifetime or of a given or implied century.


teens

/ پːԳ /

plural noun

  1. the years of a person's life between the ages of 13 and 19 inclusive
  2. all the numbers that end in -teen
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of teens1

1595–1605; teen (extracted from numbers with -teen as final element) + -s 3
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In his late teens, he grew interested in Central America, where the U.S. was funding military efforts against leftist guerrillas in El Salvador and the revolutionary Sandinista government in Nicaragua.

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Eis, a former Westlake High School student, later admitted he targeted the teens out of personal frustration and a desire to commit mass violence, prosecutors said.

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YA is a huge challenge, for exactly the same reason that it’s become so overwhelmingly popular among teens and many adults.

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Temperatures will be more or less the seasonal average in the low to the mid teens in Celsius.

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A group of teens and one young adult, celebrating spring break, piled into a Lexus sedan last Saturday night before speeding down a residential street in Santa Ana.

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