six /sɪks/
number[
Language: Old English]
1. the number 6:
six months ago She arrived just after six (=six o'clock). He learnt to play the violin when he was six (=six years old).2. six figures/digits used to talk about a number that is between 100,000 and 1,000,000:
The final cost of the project will easily run into six figures (=be over £100,000 or $100,000).3. at sixes and sevens informal disorganized and confused:
When the visitors arrived, we were still at sixes and sevens.4. it’s six of one and half a dozen of the other spoken used to say that both people or groups who are involved in a situation are equally responsible for something bad that happens:
In any family quarrel, it’s usually six of one and half a dozen of the other.5. knock/hit somebody for six British English spoken to affect someone strongly in a bad way:
Losing his job really knocked him for six.6. [countable] a hit in
cricket that scores six
runs because the ball crosses the edge of the playing area before touching the ground
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