grown-up point

plural grown-up points

1. A notional point awarded (to younger persons) for behaving in a commendably mature way.

   Bonus grown up points if you consider yourself 'addicted'.

   2015 June 25, Eleanor Jones, “25 purchases that prove you've become a grown up”, in Cosmopolitan

   3 more examples

   Collecting grown-up points is about responsibility.[…] Buying a potted plant: 1 grown-up point. Keeping it alive for a year: 10 points.

   2008 December 23, Andreas Arvman, “Collecting grown-up points is about responsibility”, in The Honolulu Advertiser

   I was so looking forward to awarding some Grown Up points to Tommen Baratheon this week, who is clearly smarting over his inability to do much of anything.

   2016 May 9, Emily Yoshida, “The Game of Game of Thrones: Season 6, Episode 3, Oathbreaker”, in The Verge

   For bonus grown-up points, you complain that you can’t make it to midnight, even on New Year’s Eve.

   2017 February 27, Kate Shellnutt, “The case for going to bed at 2:30 am”, in Vox, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2022