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Internet slang for “quarantine”, originating from the many times people misspelled that word on social media during the COVID-19 or coronavirus crisis. Often used in posts expressing boredom or frustration related to self-quarantine or 'social distancing' measures.

Sometimes also (mis)spelled ‘corn teen’, ‘corn and teen’, ‘corn in teen’ or ‘corn of teen’.
“Wow, They Making Us Self Cornteen”
“I may not be making babies during this corn teen but by god I’m thinkin about it”
“I’ve been drunk almost everyday of corn and teen”
“Really regret not getting my eyebrows done before corn of teen”
“What y’all doing for the corn in teen?”
Cornteen by 2020Dutchman March 27, 2020
Word of the Day on July 31, 2020
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A misspelling of quarantine, a necessary practice to limit the spread of Coronarvirus. The usage of cornteen indicates low intelligence and high impulsiveness, and anyone using this term should be in quarantine from everyone else.
Yo, tired of this cornteen! Let's party down by the lookout.
cornteen by sanjuro_kurosawa March 26, 2020
When you get lost in a corn field to smoke some weed while skipping school.
"Hey did you see Jim today? i think he might be cornteening because of the leaked pop quiz."
Cornteen by Solias August 14, 2021
East-Berbice Corentyne is one of the ten regions in Guyana. Usually referred to as Corentyne.
I making a spin up cornteen boy.
He lives on the cornteen.
Cornteen by Chocolate Papi July 31, 2020

coonteenth 

Juneteenth, commemorating the day slavery was abolished and all the coons were set free
Do we get coonteenth off?
coonteenth by Scburt October 3, 2022

cornteeth 

teeth that look like bits of corn.
fuck you and your fucking cornteeth
cornteeth by fredcornteeth April 11, 2009

Counteen 

A numerical system with any number <20 reverts back to the numbers 10-19 and adds a "teen" according to the value of the corresponding number.
Example: 20 would be 10T (pronounced "ten teen.") 25 would be 15T. 35 would be 15TT (fifteen teen teen,) and so on.
Math has never been so clearly written on paper until I found out Counteen!
Counteen by sheetmusicsman May 31, 2021
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