"teen" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as an adjective to describe someone as being between the ages of 13 and 19, as in "Most teens enjoy listening to music."
A landmark moment in his career, these shows saw Elvis shape-shift from teen icon into a white jumpsuit-wearing showman, and became the start of the Vegas period, which continued until his death on 16 August 1977.
It was a difficult decision, especially as I'm the mother of a teen boy so I know only too well that there are just as many pressures on both sexes.
But next to the steady diet of Jersey shenanigans and rampaging teen moms MTV feeds its constituency, the Skins ensemble can't help but seem a little smaller than life.
From coast to coast, thousands of protesters filled the streets to voice their frustrations with the grand jury's decision and to show solidarity for the family of the teen whose death precipitated a much larger conversation about race relations and American policing.
For one thing, the teen had not yet been convicted, despite the certainty of the headline.
At 35 ("Too old to be doing showbiz nonsense") he ghost-wrote Martine McCutcheon's autobiography and helped set up teen portal MyKindaPlace.
What's more, the 'private school teen' was barely a teen — Matthew Nellessen was a 19-year-old adult — and, other than a three-month stint which resulted in expulsion, he didn't go to private school.
Speak to most teenagers about how they consume music and they'll tell you it's via YouTube, which means the charts – traditionally the barometer of teen taste – don't completely take account of the people who listen to the most new music.
But the fact that its pre-teen title character is an aspiring ballet-dancer lifts it into the sort of follow-your-dreams whimsy that wouldn't be out of place in a Frank Capra movie.
And Universal offered teen-skewing horror Unfriended, which boasts the high-concept hook of unfolding essentially within an online video chat session on a laptop.
Judging by the rapturous remarks I overheard in the crowd on the way out, the pre-teen girl demographic is still the best-served in Hollywood.
