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English
Etymology
A play on the phrase baker's dozen; it is one less than a dozen as compared to one more. See also bankers' hours.
Pronunciation
Noun
banker's dozen
- (idiomatic, uncommon) Eleven.
1899, The Arena - Volume 21, page 195:Not a low baker's dozen, you will perceive, but two high banker's dozen !
1960, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business, Small Business Problems in Food Distribution:There were 11 in number (a reference has been made to them as constituting a banker's dozen), representing the following organizations :
1968, JOH, Journal of Housing - Volume 25, page 432:It concludes with a banker's dozen of 11 items labeled "What to Read" — a well chosen list on the urban, technological disruption of man's life and the earth's biosphere.
1981, David Black, The King of Fifth Avenue: the fortunes of August Belmont, page 240:Caroline arranged to have appear at her concert a banker's dozen (eleven) of New York's most admired amateur and professional musicians, including the alluring divorcee Fanny Ronalds, who — it was rumored — was accomplished in arts more erotic than the one she would demonstrate that night.
2009, Ben Bova, The Precipice, →ISBN:George counted eleven of them. A banker's dozen, he said to himself.