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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Two hundred and sixty-nine of UNRWA’s staff members have been killed in Gaza — the largest loss of life among U.N. employees in any conflict, officials say. Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025 In February, 1996, two New Jersey Transit trains collided near Secaucus, killing three and seriously injuring sixty-nine. Matthew L. Wald, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025 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

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 4 Mar. 2025.

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