SUBTEEN Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

subteen

noun

Definition of subteen

as in teenager

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Noun

Instead of crossing over into the afterlife, Billy, the magically inclined twin, transferred his soul into the body of William Kaplan, a teenager who had just been involved in a fatal car crash.

— Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
Cologne police spokesman Christoph Bermel said the two male teenagers have not been charged but are considered suspects, and investigators were examining whether the robot's movements were preprogrammed or controlled in real time.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of teenager

Noun

Willow, a one-time teen star now employed as a casting assistant, carries most of the strain.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
Florida accuses the company of knowingly engineering its platforms to be addictive to teens, and misleading consumers about its safety.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of teen

Noun

Everyone thinks their kids’ slang is ridiculous and their parents’ politics naive.

— Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Mitt reminds me of these famous sports dads — Earl Woods, Richard Williams, Marv Marinovich — who put a golf club or tennis racket or football in their kids’ cribs.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of kid

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Mesh, lace, metallic studs, crochet and tie-dye competed for attention, while fitted party dresses and washed denim leaned heavily on familiar notions of off-duty rock-chick dressing.

— Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
Shortly before Jackie took ill, the chicks — Sandy and Luna —successfully fledged.

— Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of chick

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The once-ubiquitous men’s accessory of yesteryear has found new legions of fans among stylish youngsters and luxury brands in recent seasons.

— Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026
In 272 of Jonathan’s genes, many tied to the cells’ power-generating mitochondria, the switches’ chemical tags stayed as orderly as in a youngster.

— Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of youngster

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In a bid to increase his nation’s number of rug rats, Władysław Grochowski, owner of one of Poland’s biggest hotel chains, has pledged to throw a party for every couple who conceives while staying at his properties.

— Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
Your standard maternal protagonist is not dropping a trail of pacifiers behind her, swilling goblets of red wine the minute her rug rats are in bed, and secretly vaping in the linen closet?

— Chloe Schama, Vogue, 14 May 2018

Definition of rug rat

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At the time, Jackson was pop’s fastest-rising star, having bridged the teenybopper mania of the Jackson 5 with mature disco-soul hits on his 1979 solo breakthrough, Off the Wall.

— Greg Poole, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2026
The show sent her to malls to meet fans, fashioning her into a teenybopper starlet.

— Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2025

Definition of teenybopper

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