clean teen

clean teen (plural clean teens)

1. (US, slang, uncommon) A teenager or youth who avoids or eschews drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, and other vices.
   • 1984, Scarecrow Press (publisher), Voice of Youth Advocates - VOYA. · Volume 7, page 26:

     Another "clean teen" romance which will appeal to the same readers as the other 68 in this series.

   • 1997, Doug Owram, Born at the Right Time - A History of the Baby Boom Generation, page 157:

     Much, though not all, of the earlier antagonism to rock and roll had ebbed, in part because of a whole host of 'clean teen' singers like Pat Boone had sanitized the genre.

   • 2002, Kirse Granat May, Golden State, Golden Youth - The California Image in Popular Culture, 1955-1966, page 122:

     Annette's identity as a clean teen fit perfectly with the Beach Party films, which took advantage of her girl-next-door image.

   • 2004, Andrew Caine, Interpreting Rock Movies - The Pop Film and Its Critics in Britain, page 6:

     He derides the fact that clean teen idols, typified by Fabian, owed their success to the younger audiences, ...

   • 2013, Kimberley Monteyne, Hip Hop on Film - Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s:

     The late 1960s witnessed the emergence of films diametrically opposed to the "clean teen" beach productions and other innocuous fare of the early part of the decade, ...