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contraction of <i>between</i>; youngster between 10 and 12 years of age, considered too old to be a child and too young to be a teenager

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Usage examples (35)
  • I knew what the term tween was, but when people say that, what are they really getting at?
  • They as "one" are now what I call tween ... or time's now new center of wisdom's two emotional intelligences.
  • I think I'd hardly get off with a whole skin 'tween the one and t'other.
  • FYI the word tween makes me sick, which perhaps someday I'll explain why.
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