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  • noun Plural form of sixty.
  • noun The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc.
  • noun The decade of one's life from age 60 through age 69.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the decade from 1960 to 1969
  • noun the time of life between 60 and 70

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Examples

  • Jong in her sixties is at once too much and too little like Jong in her thirties.

    Zip It 2006

  • Jong in her sixties is at once too much and too little like Jong in her thirties.

    Zip It 2006

  • A typical joke in Punch in the sixties is a picture of a small, nervous-looking gentleman riding through a slum street and a crowd of street-boys closing in on him with shouts ‘’Ere comes a swell!

    The Road to Wigan Pier 1937

  • Miss Bertha Bowlong, who was governess to the KAISER in the late "sixties," is shortly about to publish her reminiscences of her now all-too-notorious pupil.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 19, 1916 Various 1898

  • Their memory of Quebec society before the sixties is not exactly first-hand either.

    ProWomanProLife » WE ARE NOT OVER-REACTING!!!! 2010

  • The chain, which had about 100 locations in the sixties, is set to make a comeback.

    Jordana Zizmor: Before Starbucks There Was Chock Full o'Nuts Jordana Zizmor 2010

  • Redistribution of wealth to the ones who haven't worked since the sixties is what it is all about.

    Fourth House Dem in past month announces retirement 2009

  • The absence of any of what made the sixties the sixties from the film, as that you noted, save the color spectrum, the set dressings and the clothes and hair styles, was especially noticeable and unsettling for those of us who are old enough to have seen the film in a theatre at approximately the age Ben Braddock was supposed to be.

    Programming note: They still call him Mister Tibbs 2008

  • The great computer craze of the late fifties and the sixties is such a case.

    Atlantic Bloopers 2007

  • The great computer craze of the late fifties and the sixties is such a case.

    Atlantic Bloopers 2007

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