six
/sɪks/ noun C2- A group or set with six elements.
- The digit or figure 6.
- A playing card featuring six pips.
- A person who is six years old. · The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.
- Six o'clock.
- Rear, behind (rear side of something). · cover my six
- An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 6 runs for the batting team. · His century featured 12 sixes.
- A touchdown.
Plural sixes
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“If by six in the morning the four thousand piastres are not in my hands, by seven o’clock the Count Albert will have ceased to live.”
There were in all six thousand piastres, but of these six thousand Albert had already expended three thousand.
“Ah, a month—six months—a year.”
We performed the usual burial service, and he is at his rest, sewn up in his hammock with a thirty-six-pound shot at his head and his heels, off El Giglio island.
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