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teen-napping

teen-napping is the present participle and gerund of teen-nap.

Meaning of teen-nap

Verb

teen-nap (third-person singular simple present teen-naps, present participle teen-napping or (rare, US only) teen-naping, simple past and past participle teen-napped or (rare, US only) teen-naped)

  1. (humorous, rare, transitive) To kidnap or abduct (a teenager).
    • I’m surprised. I thought he was probably called something odd like Ivor Pile, had been horribly bullied at school, and that’s why he’s turned into a teen-napping psycho. But I was wrong.2011, Helen Bailey, Knowing Me, Knowing You, Hodder Children's, page 210

Questions about teen-napping

What is teen-napping the present participle and gerund of?
Teen-napping is the present participle and gerund of teen-nap.

Words near teen-napping in the dictionary

  1. teen-agers
  2. teen-nap
  3. teen-naped
  4. teen-naping
  5. teen-napped
  6. teen-napping
  7. teen-naps
  8. teen-sat
  9. teen-sit
  10. teen-sits
  11. teen-sitter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: teen-napping (page history and authors); teen-nap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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