teen-sitter

Noun

teen-sitter (plural teen-sitters)

1. (rare) One who watches or tends someone else’s teenage child for a period of time, often for money.
   • Woman phoned to say she and her husband went to Paris for the weekend, leaving their children with a—well, a teen-sitter, I suppose. The couple got back late last night to find the lot gone and naturally she assumes they’ve all drowned.2002, Ruth Rendell, chapter 1, in The Babes in the Wood (A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery; 19), New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 9
   • “And you’d be Max Hunter,” she continued, as if she weren’t a very rude woman. “I’m Dana Dupinsky, Caroline’s friend.” / “So I’m told,” he responded dryly. “As well as a teen-sitter with a narcolepsy problem.”2003, Karen Rose, chapter 7, in Don’t Tell, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, page 87