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Sixties
adj, noun
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Adjective
- 1 From or evoking the 61st through 70th years of a century (chiefly the 1960s). not-comparable
"She coughed as she exhaled. Sixties weed had been nowhere near this strong."
Noun
- 1 plural of sixty form-of, plural
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of Sixties (The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc.) alt-of, plural, plural-only
"I remember living through the sixties."
- 3 The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc. (but especially the 1960s) plural, plural-only
"Occasionally this was a direct result of network attitudes — as in the fifties with integration, the sixties with Vietnam, or the seventies with Watergate."
- 4 the time of life between 60 and 70 wordnet
- 5 The decade of one's life from age 60 through age 69. plural, plural-only
"She retired at some point in her sixties, I don't recall exactly when."
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- 6 A period in American history centered around the counterculture movement of the late 1960s. US, plural, plural-only
"The 1960s and the first half of the 1970s—an era known as "the sixties" to most observers—has perhaps generated more mythology than any other period in American history."
- 7 the decade from 1960 to 1969 wordnet
- 8 The range between 60 and 69 Fahrenheit. plural, plural-only
"Highs in the mid sixties."
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