teen

noun

1. Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old (inclusive).

   “In the safety alert, the NTSB educates parents on the risks and outlines what they can do to protect their teens against marijuana-impaired driving.”

   “Europeans have more success with generational outreach, but they start with younger age groups and provide a greater variety of all-youth activities. Rather than giving up hope, the YCN redirected its focus from teens to twens, particularly ...”

   “We found that teen drivers and the public largely misunderstand the legal status of cannabis use and do not fully recognize the risks of cannabis-impaired driving.”

2. (Internet, derogatory)A black teenager or a young black person.
3. (archaic)Grief; sorrow; trouble.

   “In which the birds song many a lovely lay / Of Gods high praise, and of their loves sweet teene, / As it an earthly Paradize had beene […]”

   “The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen, / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.”

   “Miranda: O my heart bleedes / To thinke oth' teene that I haue turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance,[…]”

   “Your soul forgot her joys, forgot / Her times of teen; / Yea, this life likewise will you not / Forget”

   “With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone.”

4. (archaic, obsolete)Vexation; anger; hate.

adj

1. (not-comparable)Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage

   “teen fashion”

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive)To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
2. (obsolete, reflexive)To become angry or distressed.

   “Þenne tened hym theologye · whan he þis tale herde”

3. (Devon, dialectal, obsolete, transitive)To close, to shut; to enclose, to hedge or fence in.

   “Hie tho' off […] or th' dur may be teen'd.”

   “It is still heard in Devon , especially by older dialect speakers, in such expressions as “I'an't a-teen'd my eyes all night”; “Teen the door, will ' e?””

   “She whimpered and whined about it till, in self-defence, I rose up and teened the candle and got into my breeches.”