"adultescent" meaning in English

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          "text": "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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          "ref": "2001, Andrew Calcutt, Brit Cult: An A-Z of British Pop Culture, page 237",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "2001 December 30, Peter Lyle, “Farewell 2001”, in Independent on Sunday",
          "text": "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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          "text": "This time his protagonist is not a gormless ‘adultescent’ but a middle-aged woman named Meg Riddoch.",
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          "ref": "2008, Business Week, numbers 4065-4072, page 122",
          "text": "For more than a year, the senator's \"adultescent\" campaign staffers have been swarming college campuses in beat-up cars with college logos, collecting names, building databases, and creating a social networking juggernaut […].",
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          "word": "adultolescent"
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          "word": "kidult"
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          "word": "rejuvenile"
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          "sense": "adult who continues to participate in and enjoy youth culture",
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          "word": "zamrzlý puberťák"
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          "sense": "adult who continues to participate in and enjoy youth culture",
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          "word": "adultescente"
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  "word": "adultescent"
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          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Andrew Calcutt, Brit Cult: An A-Z of British Pop Culture, page 237",
          "text": "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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        },
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      "sense": "adult who continues to participate in and enjoy youth culture",
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      "sense": "adult who continues to participate in and enjoy youth culture",
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "adultescente"
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  "word": "adultescent"
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