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- noun A person who is or has been a participant in a
twelve-step program to recover fromaddiction .
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Examples
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I'm looking into the camera clipped to the laptop's display, and I'm speaking in the tone of a twelve-stepper at his turn to the podium.
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Offering them high heels is like offering a cocktail to a recovered twelve-stepper—a total no-no—and they are quick to let you know.
The Style Checklist Lloyd Boston 2010
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Offering them high heels is like offering a cocktail to a recovered twelve-stepper—a total no-no—and they are quick to let you know.
The Style Checklist Lloyd Boston 2010
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Offering them high heels is like offering a cocktail to a recovered twelve-stepper—a total no-no—and they are quick to let you know.
The Style Checklist Lloyd Boston 2010
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Anyway, there is a part in the movie where, over the course of Sandra's character's twelve-stepper revelations, someone intones an adage about the definition of insanity as doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.
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