Definition of tween

tween    

noun

• a person who is between being a young child and a teenager.

  I'm a columnist at a magazine for tweens.

  • See more words with the same meaning: young person.

  Last edited on Mar 01 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 03 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'young person':
chicken	Definitions include: a coward.
wain	Definitions include: a baby or child.
varmint	Definitions include: small rodent.
ankle biter	Definitions include: a young child.
FLK	Definitions include: acronym for "funny looking kid", an insult used by doctors in the UK on medical charts.
twinkie	Definitions include: A young attractive girl.
grommet	Definitions include: a young - typically pre-pubescent - surfer.
whipper-snapper	Definitions include: a young person.
younger model	Definitions include: a younger romantic interest.
munchkin	Definitions include: term of address for a child.
Pebbles	Definitions include: an under-aged, attractive, promiscuous female.
LOLITA	Definitions include: a sexually attractive or sexually provocative female under the age of sexual consent.
kiddie	Definitions include: a child.
sweetie	Definitions include: affectionate form of address or reference for one's significant other.
rug-rat	Definitions include: child.
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Other terms relating to 'tween':
tweener	Definitions include: something that falls between two categories.

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