teenybopper n.
1. (also teenie-bobber, teeny-bop, teenboppette) a young girl, usu. in very early teens, with a predilection for rock music and the boys who play it; occas. used of a trend-obsessed boy.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Harvard Crimson 16 Oct. 🌐 They’ll pose in the Yard, then move on to the Boston Common to titillate 500 select Boston teeny-boppers with some more eye-popping sound. | |
| Current Sl. I:3 7/2: Teeny-bop, teeny-bopper, n. High school student who carefully adheres to fads. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Awopbop. (1970) 84: Just five foot tall, she looked like an all-time peak in highschool teenybop. | |
| Cincinnati Enquirer (OH) 19 Jan. 89/2: His concern ranging from racial concern to teeny-bops and prostitutes. | |
| Blue Movie (1974) 16: Two identical teenyboppers, blond, sixteen, and cute as two buttons. | |
| Ringolevio 235: He [...] developed a heavy crush for teenboppettes. | |
| Detroit Free Press (MI) 16 Nov. 13F/2: For the group members’ attention, the teenybobber is willing to offer many favors. | |
| Demon (1979) 32: It’s good to [...] watch the young folks have so much fun. You mean teenie-bobbers like you? | |
| West in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 123: Make the teenyboppers moist their flowers / and holler, oh Michael. | |
| Happy Like Murderers 49: Then you got what Fred West called ‘the teenyboppers’, the fourteen and fifteen-year-olds, and younger. | |
| Get Your Cock Out 106: The tugging Mexican spurted out a massive glob of sourcream all over a couple of 14-year-old teenyboppers. | |
| (ref. to 1963) Life 135: Something happened as we were going round England. The chicks started screaming. It was teenyboppers! | |
| Man-Eating Typewriter 188: I ogled the teenyboppers. |
2. (also teenybop) attrib. use of sense 1.
| Guardian Guide 22–28 Jan. 4: Teenybop idol Leif Garrett. |
3. anybody teenage or considered too young for the situation.
| letter 7 Dec. in Proud Highway (1997) 654: Including the clap-ridden teeny-boppers who own the cars. | |
| Faggots 268: You didn’t tell me he was a teeny-bopper. | |
| After The Ball 311: A couple of faggy teenyboppers ... tried the stuffing trick. |
4. (US gay) an underage boy.
| Queens’ Vernacular 45: any boy under the age of consent [...] teeny [bopper] (fr black sl for a white, middle-class teen who thinks himself sophisticated). |
5. (US black) a young, inexperienced (and as such unpopular) person.
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 40: A number of terms [...] characterize this socially out-of-step person, such as bebopper, bopper, diddybopper, teenybopper, jitterbug. |
6. (N.Z. prison) .
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 187/2: teeny bopper n. an inmate serving a short sentence. |