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teen-sitters

teen-sitters is the plural of teen-sitter.

Meaning of 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

Questions about teen-sitters

What is teen-sitters the plural of?
Teen-sitters is the plural of teen-sitter.

Words near teen-sitters in the dictionary

  1. teen-naps
  2. teen-sat
  3. teen-sit
  4. teen-sits
  5. teen-sitter
  6. teen-sitters
  7. teen-sitting
  8. Teena
  9. teenage
  10. teenaged
  11. teenagedom

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