plural of six-stitcher

(cricket) A regulation cricket ball.

(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.

(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

(nautical) Having six masts.

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.

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).

Alternative form of six-pack