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teen-ager

[teen-ey-jer] Origin

teen·ag·er

[teen-ey-jer]
noun
a person in his or her teens.

Origin:
1935–40; teenage + -er1
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Word Origin & History

teenager
derived noun from teenage (q.v.), 1941. The earlier word for this was teener, attested in Amer.Eng. from 1894, and teen had been used as a noun to mean "teen-aged person" in 1818.
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