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S: (n) preteen, preteenager (a preadolescent boy or girl (usually between 9 and 12 years of age)) "little league is intended for the preteens"
S: (n) adolescent, stripling, teenager, teen (a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity)

S: (n) chebab (a Palestinian juvenile 10-15 years old who fights against the Israelis)
S: (n) mod (a British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers)
S: (n) pachuco (a Mexican-American teenager who belongs to a neighborhood gang and who dresses in showy clothes)
S: (n) punk rocker, punk (a teenager or young adult who is a performer (or enthusiast) of punk rock and a member of the punk youth subculture)
S: (n) rocker (a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles)
S: (n) young buck, young man (a teenager or a young adult male)

S: (n) child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling (a young person of either sex) "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"

S: (n) bairn (a child: son or daughter)
S: (n) buster (a robust child)
S: (n) changeling (a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy)
S: (n) child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child (a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age) "Mozart was a child prodigy"
S: (n) foster-child, foster child, fosterling (a child who is raised by foster parents)

S: (n) foster-daughter, foster daughter (someone who is raised as a daughter although not related by birth)
S: (n) foster-son, foster son (someone who is raised as a son although not related by birth)

S: (n) imp, scamp, monkey, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag (one who is playfully mischievous)

S: (n) kiddy, kiddie (informal term for a young child)
S: (n) orphan (a child who has lost both parents)
S: (n) peanut (a young child who is small for his age)
S: (n) pickaninny, piccaninny, picaninny ((ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child)
S: (n) poster child (a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes) "she was the poster child for muscular dystrophy"

S: (n) preschooler, kindergartner, kindergartener (a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten)
S: (n) silly (a word used for misbehaving children) "don't be a silly"
S: (n) sprog (a child)
S: (n) toddler, yearling, tot, bambino (a young child)
S: (n) urchin (poor and often mischievous city child)

S: (n) ragamuffin, tatterdemalion (a dirty shabbily clothed urchin)
S: (n) street urchin, guttersnipe (a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas)

S: (n) gamine (a homeless girl who roams the streets)
S: (n) street arab, gamin, throwaway ((sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets)

S: (n) waif, street child (a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned) "street children beg or steal in order to survive"

S: (n) ingenue (an artless innocent young girl (especially as portrayed on the stage))
S: (n) young person, youth, younker, spring chicken (a young person (especially a young man or boy))

S: (n) blade (a dashing young man) "gay young blades bragged of their amorous adventures"
S: (n) hobbledehoy (an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy)
S: (n) puppy, pup (an inexperienced young person)
S: (n) schoolchild, school-age child, pupil (a young person attending school (up through senior high school))

S: (n) boarder (a pupil who lives at school during term time)
S: (n) day boarder (a schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals at school but sleeps at home)

S: (n) latchkey child (a school-age child who is home without adult supervision for part of the day (especially after school until a parent returns home from work))
S: (n) schoolboy (a boy attending school)