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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(cricket, colloquial) A shot in which the ball passes over the boundary without touching the ground, for which the batting team is awarded six runs..
Many packs have a sixer's council where the sixers, and sometimes the seconds, meet with Akela and some of the other leaders.
1869, A Merchant. Editor: Frank Henderson, Six Years in the Prisons of England The copper knew I did that job, and had me up on suspicion some time after, and gave me a drag (three months) over it. The next bit I did was a 'sixer' (six months), and I escaped from prison in about three weeks after I got it.
Well, I'll let you get back to work. I'll swing by later on with a sixer of Melonade!
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Use sixer when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sixer means (cricket, colloquial) A shot in which the ball passes over the boundary without touching the ground, for which the batting team is awarded six runs..
Common synonyms include six, sestet, sextet, sextuplet.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Many packs have a sixer's council where the sixers, and sometimes the seconds, meet with Akela and some of the other leaders.
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