baker's dozen
Thirteen; a group of thirteen.
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dozen
UK /ˈdʌzən/ US /ˈdʌzən/
noun 5
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noun
1
A set of twelve.
Can I have a dozen eggs, please?
I ordered two dozen doughnuts.
2
A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.
There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.
There were dozens and dozens of applicants before the job was posted.
3
An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
4
The number twelve.
noun
1
A member of a K-pop group who has no talent.
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