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sixteener|sɪkˈstiːnə(r)|
[f. prec. + -er1.]
1. One of a body of persons sixteen in number.
1801W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XII. 574 On the decease of one sixteener or alderman, the remainder filled up the vacancy.
2. A youth of sixteen.
1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 41 For Joe is a less boy than many of his companions, some of whom are fifteeners and sixteeners. 1966Daily Tel. 5 Nov. 7/6 The world's biggest organization of young motor-cyclists..launched a petition against the sixteener ban. |