twelve

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12XIItwelue

1.
The cardinal number occurring after eleven and before thirteen, represented in Arabic numerals as 12 and in Roman numerals as XII.
There are twelve months in a year.

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noun

Plural noun:

twelves12XIItwelue

1.
A group of twelve items.
Fractions would be a little easier if we counted by twelves.
2.
A twelve-bore gun.
3.
(colloquial)(law, colloquial) A jury (normally composed of twelve persons).
4.
(slang)The police; law enforcement, especially a narcotics officer.
5.
(slang)(military slang, by ellipsis of twelve o'clock) Front (front side of something, position in front of something).
watch your twelve
For quotations using this term, see Citations:twelve.

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twelveteentwelveteen nonstandard

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ine-pro From Middle English twelve, from Old English twelf (twelve), from Proto-Germanic *twalif, an old compound of *twa- (two) and *-lif (left over) (i.e., two left over after having already counted to ten), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (leave, remain). Cognate with tweelf, tweelif, tweelich (twelve), tolve, twaalf, twalf, twalv (twelve), zwölf,, and tolv, tólf.