"like sixty" meaning in English

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Adverb

Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} like sixty (not comparable)
  1. Quickly, easily or briskly. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-like_sixty-en-adv-Ec-aZJ83 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1856, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, page 191",
          "text": "But there's these poor, miserable trash have children like sixty; and there's folks living in splendid houses, dying for children, and can't have any.",
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          "ref": "1873, Edward Eggleston, The Mystery of Metropolisville, page 119",
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          "ref": "1932, John Dos Passos, 1919, page 51",
          "text": "That Maine water was so cold that he came to like sixty sore as a pup and wanting to fight Joe.",
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          "ref": "1965, Richard S. Prather, Meandering Corpse, page 91",
          "text": "I charged at those trees going like sixty — at least sixty, whatever it means — and was well in among them when a strange thing happened.",
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          "ref": "1974, Margaret Laurence, The Diviners, page 28",
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          "ref": "1995, James P. Blaylock, All the Bells on Earth, page 269",
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