1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Teenage, (Country-word) Brush-wood for Hedges or Fences.

a1728 W. Kennett MS Coll. Provinc. Words (BL Lansdowne MS 1033) f. 389/2 In Kent the longer wood cut for y^e use of hedghing is calld Teenage.

1905 Eng. Dial. Dict. VI. 54/1 Teenage..wood suitable for raddling a hedge.

1912 Evening Tribune (Albert Lea, Minnesota) 4 Mar. 5/7 Margaret Slattery..will deliver six lectures on the development of teen age boys and girls.

1935 Amer. Speech 10 192/1 The dress is probably slinky and suitable for the teen-age group.

1977 Dædalus Fall 83 Society may wish to eliminate teenage street corner gangs, but this does not lead sociologists to write articles on the optimal techniques for eliminating such gangs.

2012 Independent 28 Nov. (Review section) 9/4 I idolised the older, gum-chewing, sneery teenage girls who had attitude and bosoms.

1914 Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 5 Mar. Departmental conferences will discuss elementary work, teen-age problems and adult organization.

1942 in Amer. Speech 17 41/2 Teenage apparel of all types.

1967 J. M. Argyle Psychol. Interpersonal Behaviour viii. 140 They [sc. normal adolescents] too show a tremendous conformity to the group, for example in clothes, and in the use of teenage slang.

1991 Pract. Health Jan. 39/1 Lack of confidence can start during adolescence. Remember all that teenage angst about sex?

2012 T. D. Rush Reality's Pen 65 Pam [Grier] was the woman of our teenage dreams, our beauty queen of the 1970's.

1912 Daily Plain Dealer (Wabash, Indiana) 28 Mar. 5/2 Only five per cent of the people who pass out of the teenage even confess Christ.

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Teen adj. Boys of teen age.

1973 Sci. Amer. Dec. 135/3 Readers of teen age and beyond will find in its plain language and concrete situations a smooth path to an ethical discussion as deepgoing as the dilemmas of life and death.

2002 Victorian Stud. 44 340 The poor women of London could anticipate lives of constant and relentless toil..from teenage to old age.

1956 Washington Post & Times Herald 7 Aug. 43/1 Teenage pregnancy may be a howl on the stage but I have my doubts about it as a comedy subject for home, family viewing.

1989 Mod. Maturity Aug. 41/2 Every major city in America is having tremendous problems with drugs, violence, gangs, teenage pregnancy.

2009 D. O'Briain Tickling Eng. iv. 53 England now seems to be a country drenched in sexuality—the land of the Sun, Nuts, Asian Babes, of casual sex, dogging and teenage pregnancy.