sweet thirteen

English

Alternative forms

• sweet 13

Etymology

From sweet +‎ thirteen. Coined in analogy to sweet sixteen; Americanization of the Jewish threshold of adulthood time, for girls.

Noun

sweet thirteen (plural sweet thirteens)

1. (slang) Synonym of bat mitzvah

Related terms

• sweet fifteen
• sweet sixteen
• sweet seventeen

See also

• quinceanera