Teen-sitter

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who watches or tends someone else’s teenage child for a period of time, often for money. rare

    "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."

Example

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"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."

Etymology

By analogy with babysitter.

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