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13er en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of thirteener (“mountain with an elevation of at least 13,000 feet”).
    alt of thirteener
    • The bare and grassy Elk Mountain 12er stands to the north, contrasted by ragged 13ers to the east rising above Mayflower Gulch, an impressive lineup including Crystal, Atlantic and Pacific Peaks, Fletcher Mountain and Drift Peak. 2022 August 2, Joe LaFleur, “CT Series: Kokomo Pass area delivers on alpine expanses with bonus fall colors”, in Pikes Peak Courier:
  2. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of thirteener (“Gen-Xer”).
    alt of thirteener
    • Yet the worst aspect of this “bust” nomer, and why 13ers resent it, is how it plants today's 25-year-olds squarely where they don't want to be: in the shadow of the “boom[.]” 1991, William Strauss, Neil Howe, Generations, Quill, →ISBN, page 324:

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13ers Number=Plur lexicographic