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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

From wordsmith.org:

adultescent (uh-duhl-TES-uhnt) noun - An adult whose activities and interests are typically associated with youth culture.

[Blend of adult and adolescent. The term was first noticed in 1996 in a trade publication called Precision Marketing. Marketers love to come up with new ways to slice their demographics. Another such term is tween: http://wordsmith.org/words/tween.html]