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13th stepper en · NOUN
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(slang) A more experienced member of a 12 step recovery program who targets newcomers for romantic or sexual relationships.
Guy told me that he was a “13th stepper” in AA for many years and had sex with over 200 women.
2016, Guy B Yeadon, “Archived copy”, in Guy B. Yeadon, MA Counseling Psychology, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2016:One of Boston AA’s stronger suggestions is that newcomers avoid all romantic relationships for at least a year. So somebody with some sober time predating and trying to seduce a newcomer is almost tantamount to rape, is the Boston consensus. Not that it isn’t done. But the ones that do it never have the kind of sobriety anybody else respects or wants for themselves. A 13th-Stepper is still running from the mirror himself.
1996, Wallace, David Foster, Infinite Jest:Amanda Rollins: You went undercover to an A. A. meeting?[…]
Nick Amaro: Rollins, look. I went out with some of the other guys from the group. All right, they said Nate preys on women new to the program. They call him a "13th-stepper".
2013, “Rapist Anonymous”, in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit:
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