Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

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.

Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Nodrophobia

close-up of a stained shirt

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Ludiosis

Cover image for the Ludiosis word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Adomania

a person riding a horse

Angosis

a table full of food