six o'clock meaning: definition, quotations

six o'clock

noun

The start of the seventh hour of the day; 6:00 a.m. (06:00).

In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock

The breakfast buffet opens at six o'clock (= "The breakfast buffet opens at 6:00 a.m.").

The start of the nineteenth hour of the day; 6:00 p.m. (18:00).

Only in the 12-hour clock

Informal A position behind (horizontal clock orientation) or below (vertical clock orientation) (from the location of the 6 mark on a clock face)

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A pose in which the lower leg and raised upper leg form a vertical line.

adj

US, Of a woman Straight up and down, without curves, like the hands of a clock.

Especially black slang

She had the straight, flat figure which Bianca would have described as "a six-o'clock girl, straight up and straight down", and I thought how clever it was of Mascarenhas to have picked her to be in attendance, […]1992, Edith Templeton, Murder in Estoril, Fourth Estate Classic House:
His shoulders were no wider than his hips; he had what is called a six o'clock figure, straight up and straight down, a skimped and scanty physique, as though the fairy of miserliness had presided over his conception.2004, Édith Templeton, Gordon: A Novel, Vintage, →ISBN, page 40:

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Rena Mae was still an attractive woman, but now she was considered a six o'clock woman instead of a woman with big hips, […]2011, Creasie M. Washington, The Crossing of Yamacraw, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 141:
Her body was void of pliable curves; instead, [she] was hard and angular, what dirty-minded high school boys once called “a six o'clock figure.” As for the rest of Tish, what should have been, just wasn't. Her hair (blonde? brown?) was frizzy, ...2016, Donald L. Kaufmann, O Brave New Eve: Genetic Fantasy, →ISBN: