Definition of "sixties" []

• Plural form of sixty. (noun)
• The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc. (noun)
• The decade of one's life from age 60 through age 69. (noun)

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• "Jong in her sixties is at once too much and too little like Jong in her thirties."
• "A typical joke in Punch in the sixties is a picture of a small, nervous-looking gentleman riding through a slum street and a crowd of street-boys closing in on him with shouts ‘’Ere comes a swell!"
• "Miss Bertha Bowlong, who was governess to the KAISER in the late "sixties," is shortly about to publish her reminiscences of her now all-too-notorious pupil."