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English
Pronunciation
Noun
number six (plural number sixes)
- (cricket) The batsman who bats sixth.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) Synonym of Newgate knocker (“a lock of hair worn twisted back toward the ear”)
1861, Frederick William Robinson, No Church, page 252:Bessy knew it was called “Calverton's School” — and though many who attended it were big men who ought to have known their letters better, yet others were only youths, and a few quite little boys, who wore their hair in “number sixes” at the temples, when law had left them hair sufficient for such ornamentation.
- (Nigeria, colloquial) One’s brain or common sense.
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References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary