noun
Meaning 1
Police or law enforcement, collectively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
Examples
- fuck 12
Meaning relationships
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Colloquial Variant guide
12
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Sound
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noun
Meaning 2
Clipping of 1260 (“1260° spin”)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, skiing, snowboarding, sports
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symbol
Meaning 3
Used by fans of American football, positioning themselves as the 12th member of an 11-player team.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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symbol
Meaning 4
The Aryan Brotherhood: an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi prison gang and crime syndicate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective satellite
Meaning 5
denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: twelve, xii, dozen
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: twelve, XII, dozen
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: large integer
Narrower terms: boxcars
History
Etymology
Of uncertain origin. Widespread use of the phrase as an anti-police slogan grew following the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. * Possibly from 1312, an alternative form of ACAB (“all cops are bastards”) in which the letters are substituted with their position in the alphabet. * Alternatively, from the American police procedural television series Adam-12 (1968–1975), in which 1-Adam-12 refers to a patrol unit and its radio call sign. Likely popularized by "F*ck 12", a song by American hip-hop group Migos from their 2013 mixtape Y.R.N. (Young Rich Niggas), which uses 12 in reference to the police while describing a narcotics raid: “12 kickin' in my front door [...] 12 in my home, they won't leave me alone”.
Shortening.
The alphanumeric code for AB, an initialism for the Aryan Brotherhood.