plural of six-stitcher

(cricket) A regulation cricket ball.

(music, historical, US) Six specific influential classical-music composers who lived during the late-19th and early-20th centuries in Boston, considered part of the Second New England School: John Knowles Paine (1839–1906), Arthur Foote (1853–1937), George Chadwick (1854–1931), Amy Beach (1867–1944), Edward MacDowell (1861–1908), and Horatio Parker (1863–1919).

plural of big six

(informal) Six artificial food dyes, a mixture of which was studied by researchers at Southampton University (results published in 2007), who found a possible link between these dyes and a sodium benzoate preservative and increased hyperactivity in children consuming them. The dyes are: tartrazine, Allura Red AC, ponceau 4R, Quinoline Yellow WS, sunset yellow, and carmoisine.

(Canada, Philippines) Sixth grade.

(nautical) Having six masts.

To hit a cricket ball over the boundary of a cricket pitch and thus score six runs. / To hit something hard. / To be exceedingly successful at (a particular enterprise).

plural of straight-six

(engineering, automotive) An internal combustion engine, with six cylinders mounted in a straight line along the crankcase with all the pistons driving a common crankshaft.