sweet thirteen

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

sweet thirteen (plural sweet thirteens)

  1. (slang) Synonym of bat mitzvah

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