Meaning

4 senses

  1. A defensive midfielder.

  2. The batsman who bats sixth.

  3. (Nigeria, colloquial)One’s brain or common sense.

  4. (UK, obsolete, slang)Synonym of Newgate knocker (“a lock of hair worn twisted back toward the ear”).

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Layla gave birth to baby number six.

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Forms

plural: number sixes
Singularnumber six
Pluralnumber sixes

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Newgate knocker

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
numbC1numberA1numbnessnumeralnumericalB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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