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Eighties

adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    From or evoking the 81st through 90th years of a century (chiefly the 1980s). not-comparable

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

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of eighty form-of, plural
  2. 2
    The decade of the 1880s, 1980s, etc. plural, plural-only

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

  3. 3
    the time of life between 80 and 90 wordnet
  4. 4
    The decade of one's life from age 80 through age 89. plural, plural-only

    "Only folks in their eighties remember this song!"

  5. 5
    the decade from 1980 to 1989 wordnet
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  1. 6
    The range between 80 and 89. plural, plural-only

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

  2. 7
    the decade from 1880 to 1889 wordnet

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