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teensitter

teensitter is the alternative form 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

Forms of teensitter

pluralteensitters

Questions about teensitter

What is teensitter the alternative form of?
Teensitter is the alternative form of teen-sitter.

Words near teensitter in the dictionary

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

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