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- noun A young human being that is not yet technically a
teenager (being less than thirteen years old), but starting to act like one—generally eight to twelve years old.
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Examples
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It doesn't hurt that I wore it when I was a "tweenager" and I vividly remember it as a part of my grief when I lost my first dog.
Floating Like a Vapor On the Soft Summer Air: La Haie Fleurie du Hameau Marina Geigert 2007
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The new Dora will be a fashionable "tweenager", living and shopping in the big city.
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The Predator UAV is scary technology with a tweenager at the controls … I think Asimov did more for human contemplation of robotic sentience (and its pitfalls) than any scientist.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Really interesting viewing here… 2009
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The tweenager of an event -- which last year drew 15,000 people over two days, as opposed to San Diego's 125,000-plus over four days -- is still, foremost, about the comics industry.
BALTIMORE COMIC-CON: Has it become the supreme antidote to San Diego? 2010
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She was also Clarissa -- you know, the explaining tweenager?
'Melissa & Joey': '90s stars Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence do a 30s thing 2010
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Much in the manner of a wayward tweenager who has been grounded from going out and is secretly Tweeting and Facebooking their mates every five minutes and chuckling to themselves about how clever they are.
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It's like saying you're now a tweenager ANNND you reached your twentieth birthday!
I'm This Many 2009
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As he waited patiently for his dad to sign books, I 'grilled' the personable tweenager for insider information on the author's work habits.
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Perhaps you want to write a story about a tweenager who wants to be the prom queen.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Character Contradictions 2007
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Mom lets us decorate our bedrooms however we want, so I swap my tweenager orange shag carpeting and beanbag chairs for grown-up hardwood floors and light gray walls.
Thom Filicia Style Thom Filicia 2008
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