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thirteen
(redirected from long dozen)

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thirteen
1. the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and three and is a prime number
2. a numeral, 13, XIII, etc., representing this number
3. the amount or quantity that is three more than ten; baker's dozen

thirteen
number attending Last Supper, including Judas; considered unlucky number. [Christian Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1075; Western Folklore: Misc.]
See : Luck, Bad


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So too, in the last century, homosexuality, alternately viewed as medical inferiority, psychopathology, neuronal abnormality, hormonal malfunction, or simply bad decision making, has been successfully "cured" by a long dozen of remedies that has included the banter of psychoanalysis, electric shocks of operant conditioning, injections of steroid hormones, cauterization of brain tissue by implanted electrodes, and even implantation of the unalloyed and thoroughbred genitals of heterosexuals.
 
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