sweet sixteen
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See also: Sweet Sixteen
English
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[edit]sweet sixteen (plural sweet sixteens)
- (US, informal) A girl's sixteenth birthday, or sixteenth-birthday party and a related coming of age party.
- 1978 January 4, Lynn Ames, “Sweet Sixteen: A Rite That Persists”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- But one tradition associated with the age hangs on: the Sweet Sixteen celebration. Symptomatic of at least a partial swing away from counterculture sentiments, the Sweet Sixteen party—relatively dormant during the anti‐Establishment turmoil of the late 60's and early 70's—is becoming popular again as a way of marking the 16th birthday.
- (bingo) Sixteen.