Twenty-firster

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person's 21st birthday. informal

    "On his twenty-firster his father, in a characteristic gesture, had given him an Indian servant, and when Sandys was at the Embassy in Berlin, this splendid creature appeared at his dinner parties in a long white coat, rows of medals […]"

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"On his twenty-firster his father, in a characteristic gesture, had given him an Indian servant, and when Sandys was at the Embassy in Berlin, this splendid creature appeared at his dinner parties in a long white coat, rows of medals […]"

Etymology

From twenty-first + -er.

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