60s en · NOUN
Meanings
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(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:
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(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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