1996, Precision Marketing 17 June 21/4 Consider the importance of adultescents to the music biz—they make up over a third of the audience at gigs, but have more cash to spend than teenagers.
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Adultescent
Synonyms for "adultescent" (8 found)
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Czech
1 entries- zamrzlý puberťák noun (adult who continues to participate in and enjoy youth culture)
Portuguese
1 entries- adultescente noun (adult who continues to participate in and enjoy youth culture)
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First he was known as the ultimate adultescent, a thirty/fortysomething who admitted to being fixated with football and music and stuck at the mental/emotional age of 14.
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PlayStation2 and X-Box are all very well. But for die-hard video-game connoiseurs the Golden Age ended on 1 February, when Sega announced that the Dreamcast was to cease production after just three years. Stung by Sony's success since 1995 with PlayStation, the veteran video-game firm had put all its energies into a final charge on the hearts and minds of kids and adultescents with an affordable, technologically advanced new console.
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This time his protagonist is not a gormless ‘adultescent’ but a middle-aged woman named Meg Riddoch.
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