Usually means: Six units of any item.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word half dozen:

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. half-dozen, half dozen: Encyclopedia

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (half dozen)

▸ noun:  A set of six.

Similar:
six, VI, cardinal, half a dozen, dozen, half-dozen, sixes, baker's half dozen, sixsome, double-six, more...

Opposite:
six, 6, full dozen, twelve

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

Adjectives:
eighth, octonary, sexenary, decimosexto, sixfold, septuple, ninth, duodecuple, subquintuple, sextuple, subsextuple

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Similar:
six, VI, cardinal, half a dozen, dozen, half-dozen, sixes, baker's half dozen, sixsome, double-six, more...

Opposite:
six, 6, full dozen, twelve

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

Adjectives:
eighth, octonary, sexenary, decimosexto, sixfold, septuple, ninth, duodecuple, subquintuple, sextuple, subsextuple



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