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sixer colloq.|ˈsɪksə(r)|
[f. six a. + -er1. Cf. G. sechser.]
1. Anything that counts as six (as a hit for six runs at cricket).
1870Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 452 It is not difficult to hit sixers to leg. 1905H. A. Vachell Hill xii, Never before in an Eton and Harrow match have two ‘sixers’ been hit in succession.
2. slang.
a. Six months' hard labour. Also, six months' imprisonment.
1849Session Papers 1 Feb. 324 The prisoner said he should not mind if he got off with a sixer—that means six months' imprisonment. 1869Temple Bar Apr. 75 The next bit I did was a ‘sixer’. 1887J. W. Horsley Jottings from Jail i. 23 Neddie, from City Road, smugged for attempt up the Grove, expects a sixer..and is reconciling himself to an absence from his oriental home for half a year. 1900Daily News 6 Nov. 9/1 The prisoner..said, ‘It don't matter whether I get a sixer or a stretch’. 1903[see carpet n. 7]. 1926J. Black You can't Win xii. 161 We'll both get a ‘sixer’ in the morning if we go in front of the judge. 1955D. W. Maurer in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxiv. 151 Maybe he will get off with a bit..or a sixer, which is six months in jail.
b. A sixth term of imprisonment.
1872[see fiver 3].
c. A six-ounce loaf.
1877Five Yrs. Penal Servitude iii, He keeps a sharp eye on that man to see he does not ‘filch’ a ‘sixer’, as the six ounce loaf served with dinner, is called. 1899Westm. Gaz. 29 Nov. 3/1 The ‘sixers’ of old..had become eight-ounce loaves for men.
d. Six strokes of the cane administered as punishment in school. Cf. six of the best s.v. best a. 10 d.
1927Chambers's Jrnl. 10 Sept. 645/2 About a dozen boys..ranged up in front of the Doctor, who, stepping off his pedestal, administered a ‘sixer’ to each of the culprits with a long and stout cane. 1977C. McCullough Thorn Birds ii. 29 They all got sixers, but Meggie was terribly upset because she thought she ought to have been the only one punished.
3. A Brownie Guide or Cub Scout in charge of a six.
1916R. Baden-Powell Wolf Cub's Handbk. iii. 216 The average Cub when promoted to Sixer does not carry so much authority. 1920[see six n. 2 b (b)]. 1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai x. 161, I was promoted to be Sixer of the Whites. 1978Lochaber News 31 Mar. 7/5 On Thursday, March 23 the sixers and seconds went to Raigmore Hospital to present a cheque to Dr John Burton for the kidney unit at the hospital. |