Meanings
nounsweet seventeen (plural sweet seventeens)
plural sweet seventeens · alternative sweet 17
- UScolloquialA girl's seventeenth birthday, or seventeenth-birthday party. It is often used to mitigate a failed sweet sixteen birthday.
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sweet seventeen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sweet%20seventeen
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