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6ix

6ix is the alternative spelling of six.

Meaning of six

Noun

six (plural sixes)

  1. A group or set with six elements.
  2. The digit or figure 6.
    • how about 100 then? for 100, I wanted to pay homage to the people who have been using seximal this entire time. specifically, I used the word for six sixes found in the Ndom language, "nif".(Can we date this quote?), jan Misali, “what to call the numbers”, in seximal.net
  3. A playing card featuring six pips.
  4. A person who is six years old.
    • The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.
  5. Six o'clock.
    • In Austria the prisoners rise at five, [...]. There are morning prayers at a quarter to six, after which the prisoners are conducted to work.1838, Francis Bisset Hawkins, chapter XIII, in Germany: The Spirit of Her History, Literature, Social Condition and National Economy, Illustrated by Reference to Her Physical, Moral and Political...
  6. (slang, by ellipsis of six o'clock) Rear, behind (rear side of something).
    • cover my six

See all 12 meanings of six

Proper noun

The 6ix

  1. (slang) Synonym of the city of Toronto.
    Synonyms:
    the city of Toronto

Synonyms of 6ix

Forms of 6ix

Noun
plural6ixes
Proper noun
alternative formThe Six
alternative formThe 6

Origin of 6ix

Playful letter replacement.

From the original 6 boroughs (Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, York, East York, Toronto) forming the megacity of Toronto (formerly Metro Toronto) under a forced merger by the provincial government.

Questions about 6ix

What does 6ix mean?
6ix means synonym of the city of Toronto.
What is 6ix the alternative spelling of?
6ix is the alternative spelling of six.
What part of speech is 6ix?
6ix is a proper noun.

Words near 6ix in the dictionary

  1. 6D chess
  2. 6DOF
  3. 6H
  4. 6Hs
  5. 6in4
  6. 6ix
  7. 6mo
  8. 6mos
  9. 6NF
  10. 6NFs
  11. 6s

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: 6ix (page history and authors); six (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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