Meaning & use
deb
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An informal short form of "debutante," a young woman formally introduced to society.
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She was presented as a deb at the annual charity ball.
The old photographs showed her mother as a deb in the 1950s.
A note on using this word
Most closely associated with formal "coming out" balls and society events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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debutante
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