tweener
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- noun
- /ˈtwiːnər/
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preadolescente
- The tweener age is often difficult for children as they navigate between childhood and adolescence.
I, I, I think that there are a lot of tweener cases where it could still work out.
- I, I, I think that there are a lot of tweener cases where it could still work out.
- I'm a I'm a tweener because there are a lot of there's a lot of noise out there, right?
Examples
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The Harry Potter books weren't perfect either, but they got the teenagers and tweeners to read.
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He came to the realization that she was going to be a certified tweener.
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I, I, I think that there are a lot of tweener cases where it could still work out.
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I, I, I think that there are a lot of tweener cases where it could still work out.
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All those tweeners are growing up.
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I'm a I'm a tweener because there are a lot of there's a lot of noise out there, right?
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Tennis was one of my favorite sports as a kid, to the extent that I even spent a couple of my tweener summers at tennis camp.
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As a PG, Rose is not even a top 3 PG, let alone #1—he's just an overglorified tweener.
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I see these recent price reductions as a way to spread the price points between the A77 and A99 for a tweener product (A85?).
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Many books and movies are designed for the tweener audience, helping them feel understood during a challenging time.
Synonyms
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A child between childhood and the teenage years, usually aged 9 to 12
A person who is between two groups or stages and does not feel they belong
A child aged about nine to twelve who is not yet a teenager
A child younger than thirteen who is about to become a teenager
How Young
Surface Forms
Morphology
tweener = (transparent) = between + er
Derivation by adding '-er' to 'between' to label a person in an intermediate developmental stage; the relation is straightforward. [Postprocessing: moved 'between' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
Tweener comes from tween, a short form of between, which means 'in the middle'. A tweener is a young person 'between' childhood and the teenage years, so they are not quite a child and not yet a teen.