# Social Spread of Slang Term “6-7” **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2025, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825 "2025-11-13T10:18:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eric1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@Eric1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eric1)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/1 "2025-11-13T10:18:41Z")
My nephews of twelve and ten in Southern California fllippantly joke about a statement of an evenly-keeled circumstance as a stated “6-7.” The usage seems to be derived from the Net somehow. Is that common with middle-schoolers where you live? ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/2 "2025-11-13T10:22:56Z")
OMG it’s been popular for a couple months where I live. Has also been picked up by snarky adults and coworkers at times. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/3 "2025-11-13T11:32:48Z")
It’s made it across the Atlantic to my kids’ schools here in Luxembourg. They think it’s hilarious. To be clear, “6-7” is not funny by itself. It’s the confusion of adults that’s entertaining. Basic real-world dada shitposting. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/4 "2025-11-13T12:32:37Z")
One of the local “Hot Topic”-style stores has a display of Christmas sweaters and one of them has the Grinch with “6-7” on it. I guess that’s how you can tell that a popular meme is in its death throes. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/5 "2025-11-13T12:42:03Z")
It’s been popular here for a couple of months. “41” is the more current number slang around here, though “6-7” is still alive and kicking. And, yes, both my 11- and 9-year-old use it, though very much in a tongue-in-cheek, ironic manner. (On the other hand, is there any other way to use it?) And, yes, it’s been the bane of every elementary/middle school teacher I know. The phrase 6-7 comes from a rap song called “Doot Doot (67)” by Skrilla, though nobody who actually uses it seems to know whence the reference. And when asked about its meaning, my kids say it either doesn’t mean anything or it can mean anything. Seems vaguely dada to me. (ETA: Heh. Only just noticed dada was mentioned in this thread. I agree with that interpretation.) ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/6 "2025-11-13T12:47:55Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > And, yes, it’s been the bane of every elementary/middle school teacher I know. My wife teaches middle school here in greater Boston, and it’s been a thing here for a while. Heck, it even made Colbert’s monologue, so you know it waning now. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/7 "2025-11-13T12:48:43Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > “41” is the more current number slang around here, though “6-7” is still alive and kicking. I miss “23-skidoo.” ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/8 "2025-11-13T12:59:46Z")
The funny part to me is that they’re also confused by it. My 11 and 14 year old boys were pretty much nonplussed when I asked them what it meant, or where it came from. “Uh.. I don’t know Dad. People just say it. I’m not sure what it means.” So I do it back to them when I get the chance, which I’m sure is hastening the end of this fad, if only a tiny bit. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/9 "2025-11-13T13:00:51Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > It’s made it across the Atlantic to my kids’ schools here in Luxembourg. They think it’s hilarious. Yeah, I haven’t heard it in the wild, but it has been reported about that meme also here in Germany. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/10 "2025-11-13T13:10:08Z")
My 7-y/o granddaughter hit me this weekend with dabbing and 6-7. Kids… 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/11 "2025-11-13T13:11:05Z")
Dabbing? Is that back? That’s gotta be about a decade old by now. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/12 "2025-11-13T13:12:23Z")
I have no idea where she got dabbing - maybe an old video? I just smile and she moves on. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/13 "2025-11-13T13:17:25Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > My 7-y/o granddaughter hit me this weekend with dabbing and 6-7. Kids… 🙄 I had to look up “dabbing” and first got the definition for a marijuana smoking technique and thought “Sheesh, 7 years is really to young for this”. Then I fortunately found the alternative meaning… ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/14 "2025-11-13T13:19:51Z")
Yeah, TikTok/YouTube Shorts/Reels does have a way of intermixing culture chronologically. My kid a year ago surprised the hell out of me when I was changing the station because I didn’t feel like listening to Freebird for the hundred billionth time. She stopped me with “wait, my favorite part is coming up!” And I’m like “how in the hell do you know this song?” Apparently, the solo was the background music for a TikTok meme (or a series of memes.) Cool thing is, she actually unironically enjoyed the song, so kids are getting exposed to a smattering of culture from all sorts of time frames. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/15 "2025-11-13T13:36:03Z")
Here’s the [12 seconds of viral video that started it](https://youtu.be/1f9Axl06B5Y). Proof: the internet is the fastest and most effective vector for utter garbage to proliferate from meme to legend. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/16 "2025-11-13T13:39:40Z")
I wouldn’t call it garbage, actually I appreciate it when kids use some dadasque humor. When I was a kid I also had fun with silly and absurd word plays, and annoying the grown-ups was just a bonus. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/17 "2025-11-13T13:40:48Z")
I’m old enough to remember the [**“No soap radio”**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_soap_radio) thing, and to have participated in it myself. _(…nothing new under the sun…)_ ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/18 "2025-11-13T14:23:40Z")
Too bad 8647 isn’t one of their memes. At least it means something. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/19 "2025-11-13T14:34:25Z")
There’s been a bit of controversy in the media as [Dictionary.com](http://Dictionary.com) selects ‘67’ as their ‘Word of the Year’. “It’s not even a word, it’s a number!” some say. “It has no actual definition!” others say. both good points. Personally I think it needs a hyphen (6-7) or a slash (6/7) so it’s not automatically read as 'sixty seven". This article announcing the WotY has some interesting background on the ‘6/7’ phenomenon, along with a few words / phrases that were runners-up, which I think were all better choices than ‘67’ (except for ‘dynamite emoji’-- emojis are NOT words! I’ll accept a number as a word before I accept an emoji). > **[Dictionary.com’s 2025 Word of the Year Is… - Dictionary.com](https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-year-2025/)** > > Each year, Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year and short-listed nominees capture pivotal moments in language and culture. These words serve as a linguistic time capsule, reflecting social trends and global events that defined the year. The Word of the... ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825/20 "2025-11-13T14:37:09Z")
It’s the answer to one of the great questions of the times: “What is woke?” “6-7.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-spread-of-slang-term-6-7/1024825.md?page=2)