growth spurt

growth spurt (plural growth spurts)

1. A sudden growth in one's body, especially during adolescence.
   • 2025 June 3, Mark O’Connell, “‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 7 June 2025:

     Donaldson is not by any means one of God’s chosen entertainment-industry stars. He’s not especially handsome, and neither is he particularly funny-looking. At 6ft 5in, and with the sparse reddish beard he nowadays sports, he has the charmingly awkward aspect of a teen who has recently put on a growth spurt and hasn’t quite settled into himself.

• growing pains

growth spurt (third-person singular simple present growth spurts, present participle growth spurting, simple past and past participle growth spurted)

1. (informal) To undergo growth spurts.