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teens

[teenz]
plural noun
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.

Origin:
1595–1605; teen (extracted from numbers with -teen as final element) + -s3

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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teen

1[teen]
noun
1.
Archaic. suffering; grief.
2.
Obsolete. injury; harm.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English tene, Old English tēona; cognate with Old Frisian tiona, Old Saxon tiono, Old Norse tjōn

teen

2[teen]
adjective
noun
2.
a teenager.

Origin:
1940–45; by shortening
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teens (tiːnz)
 
pl n
1.  the years of a person's life between the ages of 13 and 19 inclusive
2.  all the numbers that end in -teen

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teens
1673 (plural), formed from -teen, taken as a separate word.
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