clean teen
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.24 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An adolescent who abstains from the use of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and other harmful substances.
American usage; Slang
Example Sentences
- "Another "clean teen" romance which will appeal to the same readers as the other 68 in this series."
- "Much, though not all, of the earlier antagonism to rock and roll had ebbed, in part because of a whole host of 'clean teen' singers like Pat Boone had sanitized the genre."
- "Annette's identity as a clean teen fit perfectly with the Beach Party films, which took advantage of her girl-next-door image."
- "He derides the fact that clean teen idols, typified by Fabian, owed their success to the younger audiences, ..."
- "The late 1960s witnessed the emergence of films diametrically opposed to the "clean teen" beach productions and other innocuous fare of the early part of the decade, ..."