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swinging sixties

swinging sixties is the alternative letter-case form of Swinging Sixties.

Proper noun capitalized: Swinging Sixties

the Swinging Sixties pl (plural only)

  1. (UK, US, plural, plural-only) An often nostalgic name for the 1960s.
    • [Mary] Quant's happy perpetuation of the mythology is hardly surprising as she was part of the Chelsea Set, a group of creative entrepreneurs consisting mostly of upper-class artists, photographers and writers such as Alexander Plunckett-Green and Nell Dunn, who together with (American) mass media...2016, Sebastian Groes, British Fictions of the Sixties: The Making of the Swinging Decade, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 3

Forms of swinging sixties

alternative formswinging sixties

Questions about swinging sixties

What does swinging sixties mean?
Swinging sixties means an often nostalgic name for the 1960s.
What is swinging sixties the alternative letter-case form of?
Swinging sixties is the alternative letter-case form of Swinging Sixties.
What part of speech is swinging sixties?
Swinging sixties is a proper noun.

Words near swinging sixties in the dictionary

  1. swinging out
  2. swinging over
  3. swinging post
  4. swinging posts
  5. swinging round the circle
  6. swinging sixties
  7. swinging that way
  8. swinging the lead
  9. swinging through
  10. swinging-block
  11. swinging-blocks

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