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teensit

teensit is the alternative form of teen-sit.

Meaning of teen-sit

Verb

teen-sit (third-person singular simple present teen-sits, present participle teen-sitting, simple past and past participle teen-sat)

  1. (ambitransitive, rare) To watch or tend (someone else’s teenage child) for a period of time, often for money.
    • They actually headquartered in Chatsford where Grace was "teen-sitting" her great-grandchildren … but who, as teens, didn’t REALLY NEED all that baby-sitting …1988 September 15, Arra Moon, “Moon-Go-Round”, in Big Bear Life & The Grizzly, Big Bear Lake, Calif., →OCLC, section B, page 3, column 2

Forms of teensit

third-person singular presentteensits
present participleteensitting
past participleteensat
pastteensat

Questions about teensit

What is teensit the alternative form of?
Teensit is the alternative form of teen-sit.

Words near teensit in the dictionary

  1. teenpreneurs
  2. teens
  3. teensat
  4. teensier
  5. teensiest
  6. teensit
  7. teensits
  8. teensitter
  9. teensitters
  10. teensitting
  11. teenspeak

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Adapted from Wiktionary: teensit (page history and authors); teen-sit (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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