60s

• '60s, 60's

60s pl (plural only)

1. The decade of the 1960s.

   Synonyms: 1960s, sixties

   • 1995, Loudon Wainwright III, Cobwebs:

     I suppose you could blame it on my generation, chickens from the 60s finally coming into roost.

   • 2024 June 20, Eva Corlett, “Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     “It’s possible when we started building research stations in the 50s and 60s words like ‘boondoggle’ might have been common at that time and it became a regular part of speech … in Antarctic culture it can take on a life of its own.”

2. Temperatures from 60 to 69 degrees.
3. The decade of one's life from age 60 through age 69.
   • 2002 January 8, Cheong Suk-Wai, “Faith in a new tomorrow”, in The Straits Times:

     Many of his friends are joining a burgeoning international community of elderweds, or those who marry in their 60s, 70s or even 80s.