teeniebopper

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A form of teenybopper — A child, especially a girl in her preteens and early teens, who follows popular clothing fashions, music trends, etc.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounteeniebopper (plural teenieboppers)

plural teenieboppers

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of teenybopper.

    One of the three limp segments, “The Shadmock Story,” trucks in a psychiatrist (Bayldon), drowned out by the teenieboppers of rock groups Pretty Things and UB 40.

    1998, Leslie Y. Rabkin, “The Monster Club”, in The Celluloid Couch: An Annotated International Filmography of the Mental Health Professional in the Movies and Television, from the Beginning to 1990, Lanham, Md.; Folkestone, Kent: Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 494, column 2
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    There is no way the market of muckrakers and tin-eared teenieboppers will buy his intelligence, so I hope he can settle for that smaller, beautiful, oh-so-hip and joyful audience that digs him . . . before he goes bananas.

    1976, Katie Lee, “The Man with the Big Hat”, in The Thousand Goddam Cattle: A History of the American Cowboy in Song, Story and Verse, Jerome, Ariz.: Katydid Books & Records, published 1985 (3rd printing (revised)), →ISBN, page 213

    Ed’s was a hangout for greasers, dopers, city workers, teenieboppers, blue-haired bingo ladies, cops, winos, gangsters, gangbangers, lonely old men, horny young men, college students, ex-cons, and families. You never knew what kind of crowd you’d see in there.

    2009, Jason Kersten, quoting Gary Thompson, “The Apprentice”, in The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter, large print edition, Waterville, Me.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 74

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