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- noun A
child who is not quite old enough to be ateenager .
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Examples
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The 'Girls Aloud' member is apparently being looked upon as a potential big "tweenie" star, following Miley Cyrus, Zac Efron and Selena Gomez.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010
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They tried to shove this movie off as a tweenie film because of the shirtless wolf pack, and said Kristen acted too depressed.
'New Moon' director Chris Weitz: 'This was made for the fans' | EW.com 2009
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Nor does something like that manifest itself as neatly as a hackneyed and low-budget Lifetime movie starring awkward 'tweenie actors.
Stupid Is As Stupid Does Candid Engineer 2009
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On the eve of the breaking dawn of the new moon of the twilight of the release of the tweenie vampire-lite movie Twilight opening Nov 21st for those of you without legal immediate access to a girl 16 or under, we hearken back 14 years ago to 1994.
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Few albums have sounded less creatively liberated than the 17-year-old's third, a queasy mix of sexual bravado and butter-wouldn't-melt wholesomeness, thumping dance-pop and tweenie-calibrated balladry.
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They were trying too hard to aim at the tweenie bopper crowd.
So They Are Making a Live-Action Smurfs Movie! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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It's no surprise that you've chosen to come to the defense of someone who doesn't have an independent thought in her little tweenie brain other than treating said political figure as one of the Jonas Brothers.
Party-Switcher Griffith's Capitol Hill Staff Quits En Masse 2010
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I'm not going to be a psycho Twilight tweenie and tell everyone to read the book before you judge it, but I highly suggest this read because it's looking like an incredible adaption and this is the book that shattered a genre (I've read it three times and I STILL don't get everything).
Patrick Wilson Confirms Watchmen's Ending Will Be Like the Graphic Novel « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Here's your chance to get current, as Disney prepares for this weekend's debut of the tweenie-beloved girl group's latest movie with a repeat of The Cheetah Girls 2 (tonight, 7 ET/PT).
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All I'm saying is, maybe it's time for Obama's supporters to move beyond the star-struck 'tweenie stage, to the grown-up realist stage.
whichbe commented on the word tweenie
A new marketing term used by television executives when referring to the 10- to 16-year-olds whose tastes lie between children's and adult programmes. "Kids who aren't quite grown up and aren't quite little, who are interested in more than mindless games and willing to be entertained at a slightly more intelligent level," as a Channel 4 spokeswoman put it. (From here.
June 5, 2008