grown-up

Definitions

1. huge
2. An adult.
   childish, often

Equivalents

Examples

“They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore⟳, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.”

“Do you think⟳ the grown-ups will have⟳ the world fixed up by the time they hand it over to us?”

“Because we're grown-ups now, and it's our turn⟳ to decide⟳ what that means.”

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