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six-footer

[ siks-foot-er ]

  1. a person who is roughly six feet tall.


six-footer

  1. a person who is at least six feet tall


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Word History and Origins

Origin of six-footer1

First recorded in 1835–45; six + foot + -er 1

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Example Sentences

He was a big six-footer, weighing pretty nearly two hundred pounds.

Well, the chase was interesting; our six-footer stretched his legs and black coat-tails with effect.

He was a six-footer, and he hadn't spent days inhaling casing-head fumes.

It was natural for him to expect it, since he had already been given a difficult six-footer.

I laughed—I couldn't help it when I imagined that six-footer traveling across the desert with a frying pan over that low bush.

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