twenty-firster

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English

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Etymology

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From twenty-first +‎ -er.

Noun

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twenty-firster (plural twenty-firsters)

  1. (informal) A person's 21st birthday.
    • 1954, Labour Research, volume 43, page 188:
      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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