'tweenager

'tweenager (plural 'tweenagers)

1. Alternative form of tweenager.
   • 1992 September 13, Tom Shales, “TV: SILLY, SMUTTY, STUPID”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 December 2025:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 2004 December 12, Fern Shen, “Around Tweeners’ Wrists, a Fad of Many Colors”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 December 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.

   • 2006 December 24, Kate Aurthur, “Enthusiasm that is almost like a kid’s”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[3], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 January 2021:

     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.