junior miss

American  

noun

1. a teenage girl, especially a subdebutante.

2. junior.

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Etymology

Origin of junior miss

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

At an adjacent table, the designer Prabal Gurung was sitting with the junior miss Kiernan Shipka, late of “Mad Men,” in one of his pretty embroidered dresses.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2015

The fillip is that the youngest junior miss behaves like a junior mister and goes out for the high-school football team.

From Time Magazine Archive

We were now forced to shop among the junior miss racks.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Here's looking at you: the Modern slant on smartness for the junior miss!

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1976 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Future perfect; a guide to personality & popularity for the junior miss.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1971 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office