'tweenager

plural 'tweenagers

1. alternativeAlternative form of tweenager.

   Stickers are popular with kids of all ages, but there is a growing popularity among teens and ’tweenagers. As children grow up and become teens and ’tweenagers, they carry their love for stickers with them.

   2002 April 3, Ivette M. Yee, quoting Michael Eisenstein, “Stick ’em up: Teens and ’tweens express themselves with—and spend millions of dollars on—stickers”, in The Florida Times-Union, 137th year, number 93, Jacksonville, Fla., →ISSN, →OCLC, page C-2, columns 1–2

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   Television is still the everybody medium. But more than ever this year, shows (and in some cases networks) are targeted to specific demographic groups: teenagers, 'tweenagers, twenty-, thirty- and fortysomethings.

   1992 September 13, Tom Shales, “TV: SILLY, SMUTTY, STUPID”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2025

   Kids are not the only ones buying them. "My wife is a [cancer] survivor," said Robert Footer, a Potomac physician who waited patiently behind the 'tweenagers at Cloud 9. He paid for his two pink wristbands with a hundred dollar bill.

   2004 December 12, Fern Shen, “Around Tweeners’ Wrists, a Fad of Many Colors”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2025

   Later, Lynch thought up a number of other successful offerings for ‘tweenagers, the age group from 9 to 14 that advertisers, perhaps insidiously, love. Nickelodeon’s “The Secret World of Alex Mack” is another of his much-copied shows.

   2006 December 24, Kate Aurthur, “Enthusiasm that is almost like a kid’s”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2021