subdeb
Americannoun
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a subdebutante.
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any girl in her teens.
Etymology
Origin of subdeb
First recorded in 1915–20; shortened form
Example Sentences
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"Well, it's better than ballet," one saucy subdeb said, and another replied: "Mother thinks it will give me poise."
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Co-favorites were 17-year-old Gretchen Merrill, a Boston subdeb, and 14-year-old Dorothy Goos, a giggling Bronx schoolgirl with dreams of a Sonja Henie career.
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He knew that businessmen got as "kittenish as a Victorian subdeb" when caught in the public eye but was not prepared for how hesitant corporations were to open their doors.
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To cultivate a future clientele, he will play for almost nothing for the subdeb crowd or the allowance-ridden young men of Princeton, Harvard and Yale.
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