Definition of "teens" in English

noun

1. plural of teen

noun

1. The numbers between thirteen and nineteen (inclusive).

   • The number of people at the meeting was in the teens.

2. The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old; the teenage years.

   • She is in her teens.
   • a youngster just out of his teens

3. The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The oneties, the tens.

   • I was so excited for the teens to be over but then we get to the twenties and suddenly it's a pandemic!

4. (temperature, rates) The range between 10 and 19.

   • Although it was a scorching desert by day, temperatures could drop as low as the teens at night.