underage
adjective /ˌʌn.dəˈreɪdʒ/
/-dɚˈeɪdʒ/ Definition
› younger than the lowest age at which a particular activity is legally or usually allowed: There are laws against underage sex and underage drinking. He was prosecuted for having sex with a girl who was underage.Describing people who are young
(Definition of underage adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- adolescent adjective
- at your mother's knee idiom
- be knee-high to a grasshopper idiom
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