English

Alternative forms

• twelve stepper
• 12-stepper

Noun

twelve-stepper ‎(plural twelve-steppers)

1. A person who is or has been a participant in a twelve-step program to recover from addiction.
   • 2005, Poppy Z. Brite, Prime: a Novel‎, p. 130:

     "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."

   • 2004, Gigi Levangie Grazer, Maneater‎, p. 1:

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

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

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