13th stepper
13th stepper noun: a more experienced member of a 12 step recovery program who targets newcomers for romantic or sexual relationships.
Noun
13th stepper (plural 13th steppers)
- A more experienced member of a 12 step recovery program who targets newcomers for romantic or sexual relationships.
- One of Boston AA’s stronger suggestions is that newcomers avoid all romantic relationships for at least a year. So somebody with some sober time predating and trying to seduce a newcomer is almost tantamount to rape, is the Boston consensus. Not that it isn’t done. But the ones that do it never...1996, Wallace, David Foster, Infinite Jest
- Amanda Rollins: You went undercover to an A. A. meeting?[…]
Nick Amaro: Rollins, look. I went out with some of the other guys from the group. All right, they said Nate preys on women new to the program. They call him a "13th-stepper".2013, “Rapist Anonymous”, in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Forms of 13th stepper
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Questions about 13th stepper
- What does 13th stepper mean?
- 13th stepper means a more experienced member of a 12 step recovery program who targets newcomers for romantic or sexual relationships.
- What part of speech is 13th stepper?
- 13th stepper is a noun.
- What is the plural of 13th stepper?
- The plural of 13th stepper is 13th steppers.
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