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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.


teenybopper British  
/ ˈtiːnɪˌbɒpə /

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

  • teenybop adjective

Etymology

Origin of teenybopper

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

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2024

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 • Apr. 15, 2022

The scripts were “very sophisticated and brilliant, and we were on this new network that was teenybopper shows,” said Jamie Babbit, who directed 18 “Gilmore Girls” episodes.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2020

In Mr Fields’s version, it was 1973 and he was the editor of 16 magazine—“a teenybopper fan mag”—and he was desperate to get Elton John in its pages.

From Economist • Jul. 20, 2018

He tugs my foot and bounces his eyebrows at me, and I giggle like a teenybopper.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone