sixties

IPA: sˈɪkstiz

The decade of one's life from age 60 through age 69.
(temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 60 and 69.
The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc. (but especially the 1960s)
(US) A period in American history centered around the counterculture movement of the late 1960s.
Alternative letter-case form of Sixties (The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc.) [The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc. (but especially the 1960s)]

Examples of "sixties" in Sentences

The majority of his work took place in the fifties and sixties.
The main body of his work was produced in the fifties and sixties.
He tries to seduce the girls of his dreams in the swinging sixties.
The great computer craze of the late fifties and the sixties is such a case.
Jong in her sixties is at once too much and too little like Jong in her thirties.
Their memory of Quebec society before the sixties is not exactly first-hand either.
The chain, which had about 100 locations in the sixties, is set to make a comeback.
Redistribution of wealth to the ones who haven't worked since the sixties is what it is all about.
Miss Bertha Bowlong, who was governess to the KAISER in the late "sixties," is shortly about to publish her reminiscences of her now all-too-notorious pupil.
A typical joke in Punch in the sixties is a picture of a small, nervous-looking gentleman riding through a slum street and a crowd of street-boys closing in on him with shouts Ere comes a swell!
The absence of any of what made the sixties the sixties from the film, as that you noted, save the color spectrum, the set dressings and the clothes and hair styles, was especially noticeable and unsettling for those of us who are old enough to have seen the film in a theatre at approximately the age Ben Braddock was supposed to be.