13er

Noun

thirteener (plural thirteeners)

1. A child who is thirteen years old.
2. (dated) A member of the 13th Gen; a Generation Xer or Gen-Xer.
   • Boomers played cassettes in their cars and popularized FM radio. Thirteeners love their compact disks. Today's electronics industry is abuzz with talk of the new digital technology that awaits Millennial teenagers.1991, William Strauss, Neil Howe, “The Past as Prologue”, in Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, part III (The Future), page...
3. (especially) The last playing card of a suit left after the other twelve have been played.
   • At last they were all chosen [for the watch] but me; and it was the chief mate's next turn to choose; though there could be little choosing in my case since I was a thirteener, and must, whether or not, go over to the next column, like the odd figure you carry along when you do a sum in addition.1849, Herman Melville, “He is Put into the Larboard Watch; Gets Sea-sick; and Relates Some Other of His Experiences”, in Redburn: His First Voyage. […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper &...
4. A hit for thirteen runs.
   • [A. C.] King once hit a "thirteener" in a match on the school ground. Probably the ball got lost for a minute or two in long grass, or perhaps it was badly overthrown. But, however it happened, there stands the score in the official book, a "13." clearly got in one fell swoop by the hard-hitting...1908 August 29, George A. Wade, “Notable Cricket Feats by Schoolboys”, in The Boy’s Own Paper, volume XXX, number 48 (number 1546 overall), London: “Boy’s Own Paper” Office, […], →OCLC, page 765...
5. (dated) A coin worth thirteenpence, especially an Irish shilling (as contrasted with a British shilling which was worth twelvepence).
   • Upon their return from Ireland, vvhere they collected ſome thirteeners for vvhich they had not given the intrinſic value, ſhillings, they made their appearance at Tenby, in Pembrokeſhire, on a pretended tour of pleaſure.1782, Genuine Memoirs of the Lives of George and Joseph Weston, who were Executed September 3d. 1782. The First for Forgery; the Latter for Shooting at John Davis, and Wounding Him in Cock-Lane: […]...
6. A thirteen-syllable line or series of lines in a poem.
   • [T]he peculiar Latin thirteener so popular in the Middle Ages, and best known by the lines attributed to Mapes—Meum est propositum in taberna mori [My purpose is to die in a tavern].1910, George Saintsbury, “Origins of Lines and Stanzas”, in Historical Manual of English Prosody, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, book IV (Auxiliary Apparatus), page 325

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