twenty-firster
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From twenty-first + -er.
Noun
[edit]twenty-firster (plural twenty-firsters)
- (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 […]