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- noun A
call in any children's game, such asjacks , wheresix actions must be performed.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And being an 11-year-old in a school with kids as big and old as 18 or 19 was not much fun; it was standard for the upper classmen to pick on the "sixies" as were known.
Suldog 2010
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Of course the "rights" aspect is trumpeted when the real agenda is no different to the "peace movements" of the sixies.
Britain's anti-terror control orders condemned as 'trademark of despots' 2011
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I have enjoyed a Nylon 66 (brown/blue) since the late sixies.
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Read record reviews and in-depth articles about the greatest performers of yesterday and today in their Crawdaddy magazine going back to the sixies and now an online webzine.
Wolfgang's Vault: Streamed music With a Difference Martyn Daniels 2009
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Being in my sixies, there is something I learned a long time ago and that is that most people make their own luck, both good and bad.
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