sixty-nine

American  

[siks-tee-nahyn] / ˈsɪks tiˈnaɪn /

Or 69

noun

1. a cardinal number, 60 plus 9.

2. a symbol for this number, as 69 or LXIX.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

4. Slang: Vulgar. simultaneous oral-genital sexual activity between two partners.

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verb (used with or without object)

1. Slang: Vulgar. (of sexual partners) to participate in a simultaneous oral-genital sexual act with each other.

adjective

1. amounting to 69 in number.

sixty-nine British  

noun

1. another term for soixante-neuf

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Etymology

Origin of sixty-nine

First recorded in 1885–90 sixty-nine for def. 4; translation of French (faire) soixante-neuf “(to do) sixty-nine,” from the positions of the partners

Example Sentences

One hundred sixty-nine of the children are younger than 13.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2021

In the words of actor Tim Bentick, who plays David Archer, the stories were "told from the minds of the village characters, in a way that has never been heard in all its sixty-nine years".

From BBC • Aug. 27, 2020

The number 74,218,369 is written as seventy-four million, two hundred eighteen thousand, three hundred sixty-nine.

From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020

After the Scottish explorer David Livingstone died, in 1873, in present-day Zambia, sixty-nine African attendants buried his heart and then carried his corpse—dried like meat—more than a thousand miles to the nearest British outpost.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

At Titusville, he bored a hole to a depth of sixty-nine feet and got the world’s first gusher.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson