Six seven, or 67, is a meme with no fixed meaning. People shout it whenever the numbers 6 and 7 come up, while moving their open palms up and down. School kids and teenagers do it in class, in chats and in comments to make their friends laugh: the joke is that the meme can be dropped in anywhere.
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six seven! (when 6 or 7 comes up); 67 (in chat); + hand gesture: palms up, moving up and down
- The teacher said 'open your books at page 67' and the whole class yelled six seven.
- my brother sees 6:07 on the clock and goes six seven, every single time
- how was the film? — kinda six seven tbh, not bad, not great
What changed
First versionWhen the teacher said 'page 67', the whole class shouted 'sixty-seven!'
RevisionWhen the teacher said 'page 67', the whole class shouted 'six seven!'
The meme depends on two separate digits: six, seven. If you read 67 as an ordinary number, sixty-seven, it's just a page number and the joke disappears. That's why the whole class yells six seven, not sixty-seven.
The gesture looks like weighing something in two hands, so some people answer six seven to mean “so-so, neither good nor bad”: How was the film? — Six seven. Adults usually won't get the meme. In an email, at work and especially in IELTS, say it neutrally: so-so or not bad, not great.
Your turn
Every time a number with 6 and 7 comes up, my little brother does the hand thing and yells ___.
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six seven — Your brother does the palm gesture, so it's the meme, and the meme is said as two separate digits: six seven. Sixty-seven is an ordinary number: nobody yells it or waves their palms at it.
Write to a friend about how someone in your class or at work reacted to the number 67. Use six seven and say where the number came up.
Our maths teacher wrote 67 on the board and three people in the back row shouted six seven at once.
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