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teenwear

teenwear noun: clothing for teenagers.

Noun

teenwear (uncountable)

  1. Clothing for teenagers.
    • As soon as they have allowances of their own, they’ll be heading down to the mall to buy the latest in teenwear.1989, David Horowitz, Dana Shilling, The Business of Business: How 100 Businesses Really Work, New York, N.Y.: Perennial Library, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 165
    • The trouble with the women’s clothing market, Liz thought, was that little was available for women who were too old for teenwear and too young for the standard navy business suits.1993, William Hughes Cunningham, Ramon J. Aldag, Stanley B. Block, Business in a Changing World, 3rd edition, Cincinnati, Ohio: College Division, South-Western Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 713

Forms of teenwear

alternative formteenswear

Origin of teenwear

From teen + -wear.

Questions about teenwear

What does teenwear mean?
Teenwear means clothing for teenagers.
What part of speech is teenwear?
Teenwear is a noun.

Words near teenwear in the dictionary

  1. teentiest
  2. teentsier
  3. teentsiest
  4. teentsy
  5. teenty
  6. teenwear
  7. teeny
  8. teeny bopper
  9. teeny boppers
  10. teeny boppery
  11. teeny weeniest

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