sweet thirteen

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English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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sweet thirteen (plural sweet thirteens)

  1. (slang) Synonym of bat mitzvah
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See also

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