Eighties

Noun

Definitionen

1.Nounplural of eighty

2.NounThe decade of the 1880s, 1980s, etc.

"Only kids born in the eighties remember this song!"

3.NounThe decade of one's life from age 80 through age 89.

"Only folks in their eighties remember this song!"

4.NounThe range between 80 and 89.

"No wonder I'm sweating, it's in the eighties!"

5.AdjectiveFrom or evoking the 81st through 90th years of a century (chiefly the 1980s).

"Sue picked a playlist of eighties music for the dinner to remind her wife of that night they met all those years ago."

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