thirteen
noun
a cardinal number, 10 plus 3.
thirteens
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pluralof thirteen.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Six seeds are 86-50 against the elevens, fives are 89-47 against twelves, and once you get to fours vs. thirteens, you're in never gonna happen territory.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 18, 2019
I do not know, he adds, what the occult almanac makers predict, but out of curiosity I have looked back at some other thirteens.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 1, 2013
It’s not for gentlemen like ye to be standing against the temptation;—and then, the two thirteens, your honour.”
From The King's Own by Frederick Marryat
"By Wood's thirteens, and the divvle go wid 'em," cried the Church dignitary in the cassock, "is it in blue and goold ye are this morning, Sir Richard, when you ought to be in seebles?"
From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray
"There's five thirteens for you, and I wish to God, my good fellow, that you would allow yourself to be put in better feathers."
From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
