Tweener vs Teener - What's the difference?
tweener | teener |
(sports) A person who plays at two positions, not good enough at either to be restricted to it.
(tennis) A shot that is hit between the legs.
(computing) A computing device that is smaller than a traditional laptop, but larger than a PDA.
A professional wrestler who is neutral or morally ambiguous; neither a face nor a heel, or showing no favoritism to either allegiance.
(cinematography) A person, machine or piece of software that performs tweening.
(cinema) A film that falls between two genres (and thus may not be easily marketed). A teenager.
*1952, , Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology , American Psychological Association (1952), p. 159,
*:"[…] adult periods and emphasizes the importance of the total teener in a social milieu."
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*1975, Fely J. Cruz, I Married a Newspaperman: A Collection of Articles, Verses and Short Stories , T. F. Valencia (1975), p. 1923,
*:"To a Teener Celebrating Her Last Teen Year"
*2000, George Harmon Smith, Education is Broken, But I Will Help You Fix It!: Hundreds of Tips to Help Your Child Through the Maze , Xlibris Corporation (2000), p. 42,
*:"Also, warn your teener that in this age of undisciplined classrooms, they are unlikely to have a teacher who demands that the class obey—(the major reason why European and Japanese school children score so much higher on ANY test than American kids)."
A sixteenth of an ounce of a drug.