sweet thirteen

noun

sweet thirteen

noun

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

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Slang Synonym of bat mitzvah.

Related terms
sweet fifteen, sweet sixteen, sweet seventeen, quinceanera

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