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

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sixty-nine

A month later, physicist Leo Szilard and sixty-nine other scientists and technicians at the Manhattan Project’s Chicago laboratory petitioned President Truman to use caution when deciding how to deploy the bomb.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

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

After analyzing a hundred and sixty-nine criminology studies published from 1968 to 2005, Weisburd found that, on average, each study—despite combining many variables—could explain only a third of a given change in crime.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 9, 2020

He is sixty-nine years old, and he is in love.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg