Crossword clues for tweener
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context sports English) A person who plays at two positions, not good enough at either to be restricted to it. 2 (context tennis English) A shot that is hit between the legs. 3 (context computing English) A computing device that is smaller than a traditional laptop, but larger than a PDA. 4 (context professional wrestling slang English) A professional wrestler who is neutral or morally ambiguous; neither a face nor a heel, or showing no favoritism to either allegiance. 5 (context cinematography English) A person, machine or piece of software that performs tweening. 6 (context cinema English) A film that falls between two genres (and thus may not be easily marketed).
Wikipedia
Tweener may refer to:
In sports:
- Tweener (basketball), a basketball player able to play two different positions
- Tweener (tennis), a tennis shot where the player hits the ball between his legs
- Tweener racket, a mid-size, mid-weight tennis racket for intermediate players
- Tweener, a professional wrestler portrayed as morally neutral or ambiguous
- Tweener, a bowler whose bowling form falls between accurate stroking and powerful cranking
Other:
- "Tweener", a human in the stage of preadolescence, between early childhood and adolescence
- David "Tweener" Apolskis, a character from the U.S. television series Prison Break
- "Tweener" (Prison Break episode), the 9th episode from season 1 of Prison Break
A tweener in basketball is a term, sometimes used derisively, for a player who is able to play two positions, but is not ideally suited to play either position exclusively, so he/she is said to be in between. A tweener has a set of skills that do not match the traditional position of his physical stature.
NBA.com's definition of "tweener" is as follows:
"This word is derived from the word "between", as in a player is between the height of a guard and a forward. "Tweeners" often have the skills of a big man, but the height of a guard. Though only six foot six, Charles Barkley, a tweener, was one of the NBA's greatest rebounding power forwards."A player who is ideally suited to play two positions is sometimes referred to as a swingman, although that term is more commonly reserved specifically for those who are suited to play small forward and shooting guard.
The tweener or between-the-legs shot is a difficult tennis shot where a player hits the ball between his or her legs. It is typically performed facing away from the opponent, when the player attempts to recover a lob and has no time to turn back around, and hits the ball backward between their legs. Forward-facing tweeners, sometimes called "front tweeners", are also occasionally employed. In competitive matches the tweener is a crowd-pleasing, seldom used last resort, but it is a common trick shot in exhibitions. Players who famously executed the backward shot include Guillermo Vilas (whose version was called the "Gran Willy"), Yannick Noah, Ilie Nastase, Gabriela Sabatini and Roger Federer.
Usage examples of "tweener".
He was groomed from cubhood to take over for one of his parents, according to his talents and interests, but something went wrong when he was a tweener.
The individual either responds to the training and becomes a Shadow or does not respond and so gams only the educational benefits that enable him to become a Tweener.
It always featured the arrival of Tweeners and Planiacs at the terminal center just outside Shadow City.
It implied that some Tweeners at least were dissatisfied with Grannis.
For twenty years all new Tweeners, all Tweeners who have failed in the Shadow tests, have been sent to other cities.
As soon as you understand the situation you will be returned to the Tweener capital, and events will proceed as before, except that we hope you will understand that it is absolutely vital that the Tweeners be victorious over the Shadows.
He learned that far-sighted Tweeners were already filing claims to vast acreage.
Merlica would not become finally possible until the Tweeners won in their attack.
It seemed incredible, now, that some Tweeners and Planiacs had escaped by themselves.
Was it possible that he knew what the method was by which the Tweeners could win?
There could be sane reasons for choosing victims that age, no one would miss them for a month or more, tweeners are expected to flit about like that, their last freedom flights.
The tweeners flutter about as freely as always on wing and skins as if nothing has happened.
I could have talked the aliens into bringing a dozen tweeners along for the ride.
Before this we've had some trouble with youngsters, the tweeners not yet adult, who have been creating their own bemusements.