tkday

tkday
n.
A person's 10,000th day since birth. Also: 10K day.
Example Citations:
Approaching his tkday — or 10,000th day on Earth — Horne decided he wanted to leave a permanent mark on history, and as a lover of language and devout Countdown fan, he decided that the best way to do that would be to get a new word into the dictionary.
—Steve Bennett, " Wordwatching by Alex Horne: http://www.chortle.co.uk/books/2010/01/14/10338/wordwatching_by_alex_horne," Chortle, January 14, 2010
The 10k Day celebration — alternately called "Tkday" or "decimal birthday" — has become the new coming-of-age for Generation Y.
—Paola Loriggio, " Happy 10,000th day — let's party: http://www.thestar.com/news/article/306169," The Toronto Star, February 23, 2008
Earliest Citation:
You'll reach your Tkday when you're about 27 years, 3 months and 15 days.
—V.G. Farmer, " Tkday: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tkday," Urban Dictionary, October 25, 2006
Notes:
The domain name tkday.com: http://tkday.com was registered: http://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=tkday.com&type=domain on October 3, 2006.
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