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.

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Tirosy

a close-up of a young child's face

Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

Anticious

a group of men in hats looking at elevated signage

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images

Lisolia

a bookcase containing objects

Echthesia

blurry image of two clocks

Keta

a hand reaching through paper with a flower drawing

Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Nowlings

a pile of black and white puzzle pieces

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Inerrata

a hand holding a broken cup

Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Walloway

water faucet that seems to emanate from the ground

Halfwise

a train coming towards the camera shot from the tracks

Present-Tense

a close-up of a stopwatch

Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Mal De Coucou

a blurry image of several men

Zverism

Attriage

Ochisia

Povism

Flashover

Incidental Contact High

Leidenfreude

Ecstatic Shock