Did you perchance mean screener?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A teenager who spends time in front of the screen of a personal computer or video game console.
Etymologies
- Blend of screen and teenager; coined by the author Douglas Rushkoff (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Lynn Silipigni Conaway gave a fascinating presentation on 'screenager' user studies she has been doing lately.”
“But once you've subscribed, power down your PC so you don't risk becoming a screenager too!”
“I’ll also pass along the OCED’s screenager, “Internet- or computer-addicted teenager.””
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘screenager’.
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scraps
scray, scramble, scraggly, scrape, scree, scrap, scrape by, scratch, scratch out, scratch race, scratch up, scranny and 61 more...
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New and Unholy Coinage
21st century coinage. Any strange words you`ve seen on TV or heard from irritating young people.
hateration, holleration, chillax, weaksauce, pimpin', hella, meme, blamin, propagandhi, jazzercise, blog, social lubricant and 58 more...
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-ager
Any word ending in -ager. And because I'm feeling generous tonight, I'll even let in words ending in -adger.
voyager, teenager, wager, pager, manager, dowager, badger, cadger, lager, rager, mumager, tanager and 14 more...
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VanishedOne's Words
facipulator, fetiphobia, gules, boustrophedon, reverse boustroph..., unreal, ensiform, xiphoid, romhack, heritage, floccinaucinihili..., johnian and 1004 more...
Tweets
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gangerh Ha! I like that definition, Cf. Last year I did get a role as a body double for a 27 year old actor. Much flattered as I was 62. Is there a word for that?
Edit: sexscreenager, maybe? May 14, 2009
charlesferdinand noun: older actor who improbably portrays a teenager in film or TV (eg Steve McQueen in The Blob) May 14, 2009
vanishedone T.H.E.: 'We have plenty of nostalgic and ideologically loaded analyses of what new and graduating students can't do. There is precious little account taken of what today's 'screenagers' can do that many of their predecessors - and at least some of their teachers - can't," Sir David said, in a lecture titled "Students aren't what they used to be - and never were".' May 14, 2009