Definition of screenager in English:
screenager
noun ˈskriːneɪdʒəˈskrēnˌājər
informal A person in their teens or twenties who has an aptitude for computers and the Internet.
Example sentencesExamples
- Clever games designers have worked out exactly how to push the buttons of screenagers in the way other media have failed to do.
- Anyone who thought the personal computer, with its dull, office-furniture styling, was going to be the device to open up the online world to screenagers needs to think again.
- It's about how screenagers see the world through communications technology, and all that kind of thing.
- There's a race on to win the minds of the screenager and Messrs Sony, Sega and Nintendo have been given a huge head start.
Origin
1990s: blend of screen and teenager.