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, 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.
   • 1976, Marilyn Gayle, What Lesbians Do, Amazon Reality Collective:

     One of my old lovers liked to sixty-nine because the distraction of what she was doing kept her mind off what she was feeling so that her anxieties about what right she had to feel so good could not as easily keep her from feeling it.

   • 1995, Alanis Morissette, “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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