juvenile declinkuent

A young person who habitually "rides the revolving door" of the local court-and-lock-up system.

Thanks to his family's exceptional wealth and political influence, the young Ethan Couch may have temporarily been able to avoid being labelled as a juvenile declinkuent, but eventually he "went way to far" and thus ended up behind bars, even with his folks' legal finagling.

by QuacksO November 22, 2019