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60s en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (plural, plural-only) The decade of the 1960s.
    • “It’s possible when we started building research stations in the 50s and 60s words like ‘boondoggle’ might have been common at that time and it became a regular part of speech … in Antarctic culture it can take on a life of its own.” 2024 June 20, Eva Corlett, “Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang”, in The Guardian:
    • I suppose you could blame it on my generation, chickens from the 60s finally coming into roost. 1995, Loudon Wainwright III, Cobwebs:
  2. (plural, plural-only) A range of the numbers sixty (60) to sixty-nine (69).
    • Many of his friends are joining a burgeoning international community of elderweds, or those who marry in their 60s, 70s or even 80s. 2002 January 8, Cheong Suk-Wai, “Faith in a new tomorrow”, in The Straits Times:
    • The distant cousin of a sabbatical, the miniretirement refers to young workers taking a chunk of time out of their careers to travel, focus on passions or pick up a new side gig while they’re young, rather than waiting until their 60s. 2024 December 31, Brooke Kato, “What is ‘microretirement’? Gen Z and millennials spawn new career trend to help with woes”, in New York Post:

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Synonyms

1960s · sixties