preteenage en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English teenage English preteenage From pre- + teenage.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Younger than teenage; often specifically of an age shortly before the teens, such as 10-12.
So the same chains that had won over the preteenage, teenage and college crowd decided to tackle older women.
2007 February 27, Michael Barbaro, “Gap Closing Chain Aimed at Over-30s”, in New York Times: