Meaning of eleventeen | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Twenty-one (21).
   nonce-word
2. A relatively large number, not precisely specified.
   colloquial
3. A nonsense number.
   colloquial

Examples

“Many giglets I have married seen / Ere they forsooth could reach eleventeen.”

“"He fitted about eleventeen thousand people last year."”

“Trust me, I've checked every angle and analyzed a zillion options eleventeen different ways.”

“I can make the locals laugh at my attempts in a few other languages, such as Swedish, but I'm certainly not like the average European who seems to speak "eleventeen" languages”

“Hobbes: Ooh, that's a tricky one. You have to use calculus and imaginary numbers for this. Calvin: Imaginary numbers?! Hobbes: You know, eleventeen, thirty-twelve, all those.”

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