Ah, but if you garner your information from other sources of cultural literacy *cough*lametvshows*cough* Then you'd have the same definition that I go by.neut said:- J. R. R. Tolkien used it in The Fellowship of the Ring (published in 1954) to cover hobbit ages from twenty to thirty-two, too old to be teenagers but short of "coming of age" at 33.
- In popular culture around the start of the 21st century, it has been used for children just before their teens, "between" childhood and being teenagers. The word is used to evoke children in this stage of adolescence as a market for products generally associated with somewhat older role models like the Olsen twins.
- To add to the age group confusion, in some educational and parenting circles "tweenies", children in their "tweens", are in the transition between toddlerhood and regular childhood, typically in their twos.
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