12

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

Police or law enforcement, collectively.

Symbol

Used by fans of American football, positioning themselves as the 12th member of an 11-player team.

Symbol

The Aryan Brotherhood: an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi prison gang and crime syndicate.

Concepts

douze

12

dizaine

12

douzaine

mifépristone

Synonymes

twelve

dozen

mifepristone

7

2

6

9

15

14

8

11

XII

9 diene 3 -one

15-octade-catrienoic acid

xii

Traductions

dotze

12

12

dodici

12

12

dúzia

dozzina

docena

twaalf

12

XII

dotzena

Étymologie (Anglais)

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”.