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See also: 60S, '60s, and 60's

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Noun

60s pl (plural only)

  1. The decade of the 1960s.
    Synonyms: 1960s, sixties
    • 1995, Loudon Wainwright III, Cobwebs:
      I suppose you could blame it on my generation, chickens from the 60s finally coming into roost.
    • 2024 June 20, Eva Corlett, “Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang”, in The Guardian:
      “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.”
  2. A range of the numbers sixty (60) to sixty-nine (69).
    • 2002 January 8, Cheong Suk-Wai, “Faith in a new tomorrow”, in The Straits Times:
      Many of his friends are joining a burgeoning international community of elderweds, or those who marry in their 60s, 70s or even 80s.
    • 2024 December 31, Brooke Kato, “What is ‘microretirement’? Gen Z and millennials spawn new career trend to help with woes”, in New York Post:
      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.

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