Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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.

1965		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.
1966		Current Sl. I:3 7/2: Teeny-bop, teeny-bopper, n. High school student who carefully adheres to fads.
1969		N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 84: Just five foot tall, she looked like an all-time peak in highschool teenybop.
1969		Cincinnati Enquirer (OH) 19 Jan. 89/2: His concern ranging from racial concern to teeny-bops and prostitutes.
1970		T. Southern Blue Movie (1974) 16: Two identical teenyboppers, blond, sixteen, and cute as two buttons.
1972		E. Grogan Ringolevio 235: He [...] developed a heavy crush for teenboppettes.
1975		Detroit Free Press (MI) 16 Nov. 13F/2: For the group members’ attention, the teenybobber is willing to offer many favors.
1976		H. Selby Jr Demon (1979) 32: It’s good to [...] watch the young folks have so much fun. You mean teenie-bobbers like you?
1985		S. Berkoff West in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 123: Make the teenyboppers moist their flowers / and holler, oh Michael.
1998		G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 49: Then you got what Fred West called ‘the teenyboppers’, the fourteen and fifteen-year-olds, and younger.
2000		M. Manning Get Your Cock Out 106: The tugging Mexican spurted out a massive glob of sourcream all over a couple of 14-year-old teenyboppers.
2010		(ref. to 1963) K. Richards Life 135: Something happened as we were going round England. The chicks started screaming. It was teenyboppers!
2017		A. Parks Bloody January 172: ‘You’re supposed to be a polis, not a bloody teenybopper. Start acting like it’.
2023		R. Milward Man-Eating Typewriter 188: I ogled the teenyboppers.

2. (also teenybop) attrib. use of sense 1.

2000

Guardian Guide 22–28 Jan. 4: Teenybop idol Leif Garrett.

3. anybody teenage or considered too young for the situation.

1967		H.S. Thompson letter 7 Dec. in Proud Highway (1997) 654: Including the clap-ridden teeny-boppers who own the cars.
1978		L. Kramer Faggots 268: You didn’t tell me he was a teeny-bopper.
1989		Kirk & Madsen After The Ball 311: A couple of faggy teenyboppers ... tried the stuffing trick.

4. (US gay) an underage boy.

1972

B. Rodgers 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.

1980

E. Folb 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) .

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 187/2: teeny bopper n. an inmate serving a short sentence.