sixty-nine

noun

six·​ty-nine ˌsiks-tē-ˈnīn How to pronounce sixty-nine (audio)
1
: a number that is one more than 68 see Table of Numbers
2
: mutual cunnilingus and fellatio : mutual fellatio : mutual cunnilingus

Examples of sixty-nine in a Sentence

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One hundred sixty-nine films were eligible in the category. Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024 One poll suggests that sixty-nine per cent of Muslim voters supported his 2022 Presidential bid. Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024 The Latino population in Miami-Dade County exploded from fifty thousand, in 1960, to 1.8 million, in 2020—or from about five per cent of the area’s population as a whole to sixty-nine per cent. Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024 The wallets associated with Satoshi are presumed to contain up to 1.1 million coins, for a total current value of about sixty-nine billion dollars. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024 Ahmed al-Jabari, a leader of the group’s military wing, told the newspaper Al-Hayat that the prisoners were collectively responsible for the deaths of five hundred and sixty-nine Israelis. David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024 The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation on July 30 announced the sixty-nine recipients of its 2024 Frankenthaler Climate Initiative (FCI) grants, which total $3.3 million. News Desk, Artforum, 30 July 2024 The next year, the price reached one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine dollars per pound, and soon topped two thousand. Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024 There are sixty-nine of them (plus two collectives) in the new installment. The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1609, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of sixty-nine was in 1609

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“Sixty-nine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sixty-nine. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.

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