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sixes

sixes is the plural of six.

sixes is the ellipsis of six of one.

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

Noun

sixes pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, slang) A pair of sixes.

Words formed from sixes

Phrases with sixes

Questions about sixes

What does sixes mean?
Sixes means a pair of sixes.
What is sixes the plural of?
Sixes is the plural of six.
What part of speech is sixes?
Sixes is a noun.

Words near sixes in the dictionary

  1. sixels
  2. sixer
  3. sixern
  4. sixerns
  5. sixers
  6. sixes
  7. sixes and nines
  8. sixfoil
  9. sixfoils
  10. sixfold
  11. sixfoldness

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