teenybopper

American  

[tee-nee-bop-er] / ˈti niˌbɒp ər /

noun

Slang.

1. a teenage girl, especially a young one.

2. a young teenage girl who is devoted to teenage fads, rock music, etc.

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teenybopper British  

/ ˈtiːnɪˌbɒpə /

noun

1. slang a young teenager, usually a girl, who avidly follows fashions in clothes and pop music

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Other Word Forms

• teenybop adjective

Etymology

Origin of teenybopper

First recorded in 1960–65; teen ¹ + -y ² + bopper

Example Sentences

That’s been his modus operandi — a defense mechanism, really — since he was a 16-year-old, terrified that he was the least-talented and most-replaceable member of Take That, the biggest teenybopper pop act in Britain at the time.

From Los Angeles Times

I didn’t want to seem like a shallow, gossip-loving teenybopper.

From Los Angeles Times

"And that's serious. People tend to put Wham! down as a teenybopper band that won't last. The people that put them down are the bands that won't last. I'm experienced enough to know."

From Salon

You can also choose a convertible called “SUV4EVA” and have a teenybopper pop star take you to your destination and verbally offer you an autograph when you get there.

From The Verge

At a time when many Black stars, including marquee Motown acts like Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, were producing ambitious album-length experiments, the Jacksons felt stuck, typecast in a teenybopper role they had outgrown and doomed to a future of churning out albums on an old-fashioned hits-and-filler model.

From Los Angeles Times

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