Thirteener
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A child who is thirteen years old.
- 2 A member of the 13th Gen; a Generation Xer or Gen-Xer. dated
"Boomers played cassettes in their cars and popularized FM radio. Thirteeners love their compact disks. Today's electronics industry is abuzz with talk of the new digital technology that awaits Millennial teenagers."
- 3 The last playing card of a suit left after the other twelve have been played. especially
"At last they were all chosen [for the watch] but me; and it was the chief mate's next turn to choose; though there could be little choosing in my case since I was a thirteener, and must, whether or not, go over to the next column, like the odd figure you carry along when you do a sum in addition."
- 4 A hit for thirteen runs.
"[A. C.] King once hit a "thirteener" in a match on the school ground. Probably the ball got lost for a minute or two in long grass, or perhaps it was badly overthrown. But, however it happened, there stands the score in the official book, a "13." clearly got in one fell swoop by the hard-hitting King."
- 5 A coin worth thirteenpence, especially an Irish shilling (as contrasted with a British shilling which was worth twelvepence). dated
"Upon their return from Ireland, vvhere they collected ſome thirteeners for vvhich they had not given the intrinſic value, ſhillings, they made their appearance at Tenby, in Pembrokeſhire, on a pretended tour of pleaſure."
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- 6 A thirteen-syllable line or series of lines in a poem.
"[T]he peculiar Latin thir'''teener so popular in the Middle Ages, and best known by the lines attributed to Mapes—Meum est propositum in taberna mori [My purpose is to die in a tavern]."
- 7 A mountain rising to more than 13,000 feet (about 4,000 metres) but less than 14,000 feet above mean sea level. US
"There are six summits in Colorado above thirteen thousand feet named "Grizzly." Four of them are in the highest two hundred summits. This one was once rated a Fourteener, but new surveys demoted it so that it is now the highest Thirteener."
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More examples"Boomers played cassettes in their cars and popularized FM radio. Thirteeners love their compact disks. Today's electronics industry is abuzz with talk of the new digital technology that awaits Millennial teenagers."
Etymology
From thirteen + -er (suffix denoting people characterized by something, or people or things to which certain measurements or numbers apply).
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