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subˈteen, n. (and a.) orig. U.S.
[sub- 14 b.]
a. A child belonging to the age-group next below teenage. Freq. pl.
1952Amer. Speech XXVII. 73 Bonds department store, 16 Feb.: Adv. announcing opening of ‘Infants to Subteens Shop’. 1960Twentieth Cent. Nov. 389 The sub-teens, the pocket-money market,..have never been considered anything but children. 1964Discovery Oct. 31/2 Even the sub-teens of the 1960's interpret all too readily the Freudian symbolism of Peter Pan. 1976Publishers Weekly 7 June 75/1 Subteens and teens with an ambition to get into journalism.
b. attrib. passing into adj., esp. with reference to clothing designed for the older pre-teenage girl.
1953Sun (Baltimore) 22 July 5/5 (Advt.), Very special purchase! Regular 5.98 and 7.98 sub-teen cottons. 1962Sunday Express 4 Feb. 14/6 Dating is now an accepted thing in the age group known as ‘subteen’. 1968P. Welles Babyhip xxii. 151 Armed with enormous shopping bags, they descended on the subteen department. 1978M. Farren Feelies 146 The sub-teen girls in the crowd went even wilder.
Also subˈteenage a.; subˈteenager.
1959New Statesman 7 Nov. 631/3 He is a pervert..interested emotionally only in pubescent girls, subteenagers as they are known in American advertising. 1960P. Goodman Growing up Absurd v. 117 This is the meaning, surely, of the publicity that has been trumped up for the Little League, the baseball teams of subteenagers sponsored and underwritten by various business firms. 1963Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Feb. 91/4 (Advt.), He lives in Switzerland and is married with two sub-teenage daughters. 1968Punch 3 July 3/2 A friend is worried at Wimbledon's chauvinistic effect on his sub-teenage kids. 1977Washington Post 20 Feb. d4/2 He keeps horses and a pony for two subteenage daughters. 1980Ibid. 5 Oct. a22/3 There are a ‘tremendous’ number of subteenagers who abuse a variety of drugs and alcohol. |