sixty-nine

• (General American) enPR: sĭks'tē-nīnʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌsɪkstiˈnaɪn/

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• Hyphenation: six‧ty-nine
• Rhymes: -aɪn

sixty-nine

1. The cardinal number immediately following sixty-eight and preceding seventy.

• Arabic numerals: 69
• Roman numerals: LXIX

• sixty-niner, sixtyniner
• sixty-ninth

Calque of French soixante-neuf,^[1] from the rotational symmetry of the numeral 69 — if rotated a half-turn (by 180°), the numeral remains the same, and a couple both giving oral sex at once have, in principle, a similar rotational symmetry.

sixty-nine (countable and uncountable, plural sixty-nines)

1. (sexuality) A sex position where two people give each other oral sex at the same time.

   Synonym: soixante-neuf

   Coordinate terms: cunnilingus, fellatio, clusterfuck

sixty-nine (third-person singular simple present sixty-nines, present participle sixty-nining, simple past and past participle sixty-nined)

1. (slang) To have sex in the sixty-nine position: to engage in mutual oral sex.
   • 1995, Alanis Morissette (lyrics and music), “Right Through You”, in Jagged Little Pill:

     You pat me on the head / You took me out to wine, dine, sixty-nine me / But didn't hear a damn word I said

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• 69 (sex position) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• ninety-six