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Eleventeen

num, slang

Definitions

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  1. 1
    Twenty-one (21). nonce-word

    "Many giglets I have married seen / Ere they forsooth could reach eleventeen."

  2. 2
    A relatively large number, not precisely specified. colloquial

    ""He fitted about eleventeen thousand people last year.""

  3. 3
    A nonsense number. colloquial

    "Hobbes: Ooh, that's a tricky one. You have to use calculus and imaginary numbers for this. Calvin: Imaginary numbers?! Hobbes: You know, eleventeen, thirty-twelve, all those."

Etymology

From eleven + -teen.

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