: a young teenager who is enthusiastically devoted to popular music and to current fads
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At the time, Jackson was pop’s fastest-rising star, having bridged the teenybopper mania of the Jackson 5 with mature disco-soul hits on his 1979 solo breakthrough, Off the Wall.—Greg Poole, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2026 The show sent her to malls to meet fans, fashioning her into a teenybopper starlet.—Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2025 The multimedia exposure drew the adoration of the era’s teenyboppers, who raced to spend their allowance money on T-shirts, lunch boxes and magazines featuring the face of Bubblegum Bobby, as he was known.—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025 Bed-rotting while watching Grey’s Anatomy, routinely taking breaks between hospital shootings and plane crashes, is a much different experience from devouring eight episodes of a teenybopper show in one sitting.—Catherine Mhloyi, Them, 27 Jan. 2025 Related Video Emma Roberts’s Tote and Purse are Filled With All Her Summer Essentials–Plus a Sweet Treat
Beyond their teenybopper appeal, charm bracelets have a storied history in luxury fashion.—Alice Cary, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2024 Add youthful superstardom and time served with your glamour photos on the walls and in the hearts and minds of teenyboppers and all the varying forms of attention that superstardom brings, both good and bad.—cleveland, 11 Sep. 2023 Spears was an angelic teenybopper no more.—Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2021
Word History
Etymology
teeny teenager + -bopper, perhaps from bop entry 4