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Detailed explanation-1: -Now, there’s your regular “dozen, ” which amounts to 12. Then add one and you’ll have a baker’s dozen-simple math, right? If you’re ordering from a bakery and request a baker’s dozen of a certain item, you’ll get 13 scones, dinner rolls, doughnuts, whatever.

Detailed explanation-2: -A baker’s dozen, devil’s dozen, long dozen, or long measure is 13, one more than a standard dozen. The broadest use of baker’s dozen today is simply a group of thirteen objects (often baked goods). The term has meant different things over the last few centuries.

Detailed explanation-3: -The term baker’s dozen is thought to originate from the old practice of bakers adding a thirteenth loaf of bread to a batch of twelve loaves to avoid selling underweight bread.

Detailed explanation-4: -Request a dozen eggs from a farmer, a dozen steaks from a butcher, or a dozen pencils from a traveling office supplies salesman, and you will almost certainly receive 12 of your chosen item (counting errors do happen). But a baker’s dozen is commonly understood to mean 13.

Detailed explanation-5: -At a great rate; very much or rapidly.