juvenile delinquent

English

Etymology

From juvenile + delinquent.

Noun

juvenile delinquent (plural juvenile delinquents)

1. (law) A persistent young offender; an antisocial minor, one who has committed criminal acts such as theft or violence.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII:

     This cow-creamer, in case you're interested, was a silver jug or pitcher or whatever you call it shaped, of all silly things, like a cow with an arching tail and a juvenile-delinquent expression on its face, a cow that looked as if it were planning, next time it was milked, to haul off and let the milkmaid have it in the lower ribs.

Synonyms

• juvenile offender
• (informal) juvey

Related terms

• juvenile hall

Translations

persistent young offender

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 未成年犯 (zh) (wèichéngniánfàn), 少年犯 (zh) (shàoniánfàn)

• Finnish: nuorisorikollinen (fi)
• German: Jugendstraftäter
• Greek: ανήλικος παραβάτης m (anílikos paravátis)
• Hungarian: fiatalkorú bűnöző
• Portuguese: delinquente juvenil m