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(colloquial, humorous) Immature or rebellious behaviour characteristic of teenagers..
Sonora Blair is a single mom: a widow who might have been a divorcee if her husband had lived a bit longer. She has a clingy but resilient young daughter and an older son with a bad case of teenageritis.
"It happens to all of them, that streak of teenageritis." She sighed. "I was only hoping that Kathie would have moved out of the sassy stage before Karyn went into it."
Dad says ever since I came back from Europe, I have come down with a case of delayed teenageritis. I never acted like this before, but now I apparently have a bad attitude and a bad haircut and an irresponsibility streak […]
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Teenageritis means (colloquial, humorous) Immature or rebellious behaviour characteristic of teenagers..
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Sonora Blair is a single mom: a widow who might have been a divorcee if her husband had lived a bit longer. She has a clingy but resilient young daughter and an older son with a bad case of teenageritis.
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