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(nonce word) Twenty-one ().

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, year=1600's , author=Wither , title=Weakness , passage=Many giglets I have married seen / Ere they forsooth could reach eleventeen.}}

(colloquial) A relatively large number, not precisely specified.

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, year=1919 , author=Sinclair Lewis , title=Free Air , passage="He fitted about eleventeen thousand people last year."}}

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, year=2001 , author=Rick D. Ellison , title=Gamble to Win: Craps , passage=Trust me, I've checked every angle and analyzed a zillion options eleventeen different ways.}}

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, year=2004 , author=Brooks Peterson , title=Cultural Intelligence: A Guide to Working with People from Other Cultures , passage=I can make the locals laugh at my attempts in a few other languages, such as Swedish, but I'm certainly not like the average European who seems to speak "eleventeen " languages}}