sixty-nine

[siks-tee-nahyn]

noun

a cardinal number, 60 plus 9.
a symbol for this number, as 69 or LXIX.
a set of this many persons or things.

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

adjective

amounting to 69 in number.

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Historical Examples of sixty-nine

He was born at Mirecourt in 1795, and died at the age of sixty-nine.
The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use
Henry Saint-George
I counted sixty-three rapids in Marble Canyon, Prof. sixty-nine.
A Canyon Voyage
Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
They had with them a picture-card of the sixty-nine officers of the Gaeta army.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2
Henry Baerlein
It is a feat beyond me to realize that he is sixty-nine years old.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore
Jack London
It is not often that a person who is as old as sixty-nine remembers how it feels to play.
A Little Country Girl
Susan Coolidge

British Dictionary definitions for sixty-nine

sixty-nine

noun

another term for soixante-neuf

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Word Origin and History for sixty-nine

in sexual sense, 1888, as a translation of French faire soixante neuf, literally "to do 69." So called from the similarity of positions to the arrangement of the numerals.