Parents may have heard it and not understood what it meant, but now the viral phrase "six-seven" has been crowned the word of the year by a popular online dictionary.

But even Dictionary.com, who stressed it is always pronounced "six-seven" and never "sixty-seven", admitted it was not exactly sure about its meaning.

"You might be feeling a familiar vexation at the sight of these two formerly innocuous numerals," Dictionary.com said, addressing parents as it announced the winner this week.

Members of Gen Alpha, it added, might be "smirking at the thought of adults once again struggling to make sense of your notoriously slippery slang".

Dictionary.com said the origin of the word might be traced to "Doot Doot (6 7)," a song by the US rapper Skrilla. Loading TikTok content

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