Wiktionary
n. 1 (context idiomatic English) thirteen, a group of thirteen. 2 (context Cockney rhyming slang English) cousin
WordNet
n. the cardinal number that is the sum of twelve and one [syn: thirteen, 13, XIII, long dozen]
Wikipedia
Baker's Dozen is a solitaire card game using a deck of fifty-two playing cards. The game is so called because of the 13 columns in the game, the number in a baker's dozen.
Baker's dozen may refer to:
- Baker's dozen, in baking, 13 rather than the standard dozen
- Baker's Dozen (solitaire), a game
- The Baker's Dozen (group), an a cappella group at Yale
- Baker's Dozen Donuts, a Canadian donut store chain.
- A brand of snack cracker, popular in the 1980s
Usage examples of "baker's dozen".
Yeltsin is always two rolls short of a baker's dozen, and no one knows what to expect from Vladimir Putin.
Inside was a perfect baker's dozen ofglazed fruit candies, each an iridescentcolor, no two alike.
There were eleven of them, and he idly considered the notion that if thirteen was a baker's dozen, then eleven might be a politician's.