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1. The decimal number twelve.
   • 2022 April 4, Susannah Cullinane, Holly Yan, Stella Chan and Cheri Mossburg, “All 6 victims killed in the Sacramento mass shooting are identified as police arrest a suspect”, in CNN‎ (in English):

     Police on Monday said they have arrested one man who is a suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting in Sacramento that killed six people and wounded 12 others.

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2. The hexadecimal number eighteen.
4. December.

   Comeronyms: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Etymology 1

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”.

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Etymology 3

Etymology 4

The alphanumeric code for ABCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#12Category:English links with manual fragments#12, an initialism for the Aryan Brotherhood.

See also

• 12-gon

Further reading

• 12th man (football) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia