sweet thirteen

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Etymology[edit]

From sweet +‎ thirteen. Coined in analogy to sweet sixteen; Americanization of the Jewish threshold of adulthood time, for girls.

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sweet thirteen (plural sweet thirteens)

  1. (slang) Synonym of bat mitzvah

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