Usually means: Six items or units total.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word half a dozen:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. half a dozen: Merriam-Webster
  2. half a dozen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. half-a-dozen, half-a-dozen, half a dozen: Collins English Dictionary
  4. half a dozen: Vocabulary.com
  5. Half-a-dozen, half-a-dozen: Wordnik
  6. half a dozen: Wiktionary
  7. half a dozen: Dictionary.com
  8. Half a dozen: Rhymezone
  9. half a dozen: FreeDictionary.org
  10. half a dozen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. half a dozen: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. half a dozen: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. half a dozen: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. half a dozen: Idioms

(Note: See half_a_dozens as well.)

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Definitions from WordNet (Half a dozen)

▸ noun:  the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
▸ adjective:  denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units


Opposite:
six, 6

Types:
6, sextet, half dozen, 6 items, more...

Phrases:
six of one and half a dozen of the other, more...

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Opposite:
six, 6

Types:
6, sextet, half dozen, 6 items, more...

Phrases:
six of one and half a dozen of the other, more...




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