Sixties
noun, plural sixties.
1.
a cardinal number, ten times six.
2.
a symbol for this number, as 60 or LX.
3.
a set of this many persons or things.
4.
sixties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 60 through 69, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or noting degrees of temperature:
Her grandfather is in his late sixties. The temperature is in the low sixties.
adjective
5.
amounting to 60 in number.
Idioms
6.
like sixty, Informal. with great speed, ease, energy, or zest:
Everyone was working like sixty to finish up before the holidays.
noun (pl) -ties
1.
the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six See also number (sense 1)
2.
a numeral, 60, LX, etc, representing sixty
3.
something represented by, representing, or consisting of 60 units
determiner
4.
amounting to sixty: sixty soldiers
(as pronoun): sixty are dead
six-pack
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