Lap Year

Lap Year

n.
the age at which you become older than your parents were when you were born, which signals that your stage of the race has already begun, having spent years coasting in their slipstream as they tackled the mountain stages of life, leaving you strong, energetic, and deeply mortified by their loud yellow jerseys.

From lap, one full circuit around a course + gap year, a regenerative break between adjacent stages of life. In the Tour de France, the cyclist with the lowest time receives a ceremonial yellow jersey and the right to start the next stage.

Thwit

Present-Tense

Tirosy

Enterhood

Archimony

Lap Year

Mithenness

Cullaways

Backmasking

Emorries

O’Erpine

Zysia

Epistrix

Pithered

Heart Of Aces

Vellichor

Blinkback

Halfwise

Monachopsis

Indosentia

Present-Tense

Dorgone

Anthrodynia

Catoptric Tristesse

Scabulous

Halfwise

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