Meanings
alternative twenty-leven · alternative twenty-'leven
- USdialectalinformalnot comparableVery many; several dozen; quite a lot.
I ask dem for some sup; dey give me littel bit of bread and sheese—I say I was hope I shall be put to bed agreeable—dey put me in a garret! and all de night twenty-eleven rats shall run 'bout, as if to play at a blindman's bluff.
1831, Anonymous, "A Collection on Drawings", American Comic Annual, p. 182Synonyms: countless, legion, eighty-eleven, eleventeen, eleventy, feelefold, fifty-eleven, forty-eleven
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveVery many; several dozen; quite a lot.
Origin
From humorous use of eleven to continue counting the twenties.
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