“twenty、firster”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

twenty-firster

释义

twenty-firster slang.|-ˈfɜːstə(r)|
[f. twenty-first (sc. birthday) + -er⁶.]
A twenty-first birthday party (until 1970 in the U.K. celebrating the coming-of-age), or one who celebrates this. Also, a twenty-first birthday present.
1912Isis 17 Feb. 204/1 There always are, or seem to be, celebrations of a sort on a twenty-firster.1930R. Lehmann Note in Music iv. 129 ‘What a lovely case!’ ‘Yes, it was a twenty-firster.’1964C. Mackenzie My Life & Times III. 166 The conventional Twenty-Firster at one of the Oxford hotels or clubs.Ibid. 214 Our rendez-vous with the rest of the Twenty-firsters was for supper.1975J. I. M. Stewart Young Pattullo iii. 69 The contraption itself was familiar to me, Ninian once having brought one home from the twenty-firster of an older friend.

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