teenagey

Definitions

Characteristic of teenagers.

informal

Examples

“My crush⟳ wore off soon enough, to be replaced by an equally teenagey devotion to the Hindi film actor, Dilip Kumar.”

“[…] and I noticed she was sitting on the bluestone wall kicking off her thongs and looking all smiley and girlie, which meant pretty much for certain she was talking to Carl, who makes her act all teenagey sometimes because she's in love⟳.”

“You know⟳ how kids listen⟳ to radio and all. I never listened to radio, I didn't never get⟳ into that rock-and-roll trip⟳. I just listened to blues. It seemed real. The other stuff seemed so tacky, teenagey. It didn't seem to have⟳ any truth in it or something.”

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