He has 10 security guards on duty at all times and no one who has pregamed (teenage slang for drinking beforehand) is allowed in.

A few years ago I had a conversation with my stepdaughter, who talked me through some teenage slang.

Clearly I'm too old to know what teenage slang is any more.

That might seem to undermine the raison d'être of teenage slang - to exclude outsiders from the conversation.

The teenage slang has a heavily Russian vocabulary, which can be attributed to Burgess.

It is also used in the 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange by the narrator as part of his teenage slang.

"The Words" with which the Kidsters address each other are hardly distinguishable from current teenage slang.

He speaks Nadsat, a teenage slang created by author Anthony Burgess.

Inevitably, the strip was full of teenage slang, starting with that of the bobbysoxer era but moving with the times.

And even for those who grew up speaking English, the latest American teenage slang can be confusing.