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clean teen en · NOUN

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1. (US, slang, uncommon) An adolescent who abstains from the use of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and other harmful substances.
   • He derides the fact that clean teen idols, typified by Fabian, owed their success to the younger audiences, ... 2004, Andrew Caine, Interpreting Rock Movies - The Pop Film and Its Critics in Britain, page 6:
   • 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, ... 2013, Kimberley Monteyne, Hip Hop on Film - Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s:
   • Annette's identity as a clean teen fit perfectly with the Beach Party films, which took advantage of her girl-next-door image. 2002, Kirse Granat May, Golden State, Golden Youth - The California Image in Popular Culture, 1955-1966, page 122:
   • Another "clean teen" romance which will appeal to the same readers as the other 68 in this series. 1984, Scarecrow Press (publisher), Voice of Youth Advocates - VOYA. · Volume 7, page 26:
   • 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. 1997, Doug Owram, Born at the Right Time - A History of the Baby Boom Generation, page 157:

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