twelve-stepper

noun

A person who is or has been a participant in a twelve-step program to recover from addiction.

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Meanings

nountwelve-stepper (plural twelve-steppers)

plural twelve-steppers · alternative twelve stepper · alternative 12-stepper

  1. A person who is or has been a participant in a twelve-step program to recover from addiction.

    A twelve-stepper already, and can't be more than eighteen, nineteen—what is there to look forward to?

    2004, Gigi Levangie Grazer, Maneater, page 1
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    "So are you some kinda twelve-stepper now?" Coop indicated the drink in his hand. […] "I've been to a few meetings, but I'm not a twelve-stepper."

    2005, Poppy Z. Brite, Prime: a Novel, page 130

    "The turkey smells so marvelously... rustic," commented Taggerty, swigging her sherry like a lapsed twelve-stepper.

    2001, C. D. Payne, Youth in Revolt: the Journals of Nick Twisp, page 323
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