teensnoun [ plural ]
uk/tiːnz/us/tiːnz/A person's teens are the period in which they are aged between 13 and 19:
Both my daughters are in their teens.
He's in his early/mid/late teens.
the teens
the range of temperature between 13° and 19°:
The temperature is expected to be in the teens tomorrow.
the period of years between 11 and 19 in any century, usually 1911–1919 or 2011–2019:
This type of building was built in the teens and twenties.
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Young people
- adolescence
- adolescent
- boyhood
- delinquent
- emo
- girlhood
- grow
- laddish
- mall rat
- minor
- punk
- skinhead
- Teddy boy
- tween
- tweenager
- yoof
- young blood
- young lady/man idiom
- youthful
- yute
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