twelve-stepper
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who is or has been a participant in a twelve-step program to recover from addiction.
Example Sentences
- ""So are you some kinda twelve-stepper now?" Coop indicated the drink in his hand. […] "I've been to a few meetings, but I'm not a twelve-stepper.""
- "A twelve-stepper already, and can't be more than eighteen, nineteen—what is there to look forward to?"
- ""The turkey smells so marvelously... rustic," commented Taggerty, swigging her sherry like a lapsed twelve-stepper."