Meanings
plural teenieboppers
- 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 22 more examples
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 213Ed’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
Origin
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