Y2k
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Abbreviation of year 2000. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
"Y2K and the technological apocalypse that never was / It is at the turn of the millennium that the anxieties around postfeminist masculinity (registered by figures such as Maximus) fused with nostalgic anxieties around technology. […] Arguably the most significant pattern to emerge in the cinema of Y2K is that of entanglement between threatened masculinity and nostalgia."
- 2 Alternative form of Y2K. alt-of, alternative, uncountable
- 3 the year 2000 in the Gregorian calendar wordnet
- 4 Millennium bug. metonymically, uncountable
- 5 Millennium bug.; The Y2K scare. broadly, metonymically, uncountable
- 1 Pertaining to the Y2K aesthetic.
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More examples"Y2K and the technological apocalypse that never was / It is at the turn of the millennium that the anxieties around postfeminist masculinity (registered by figures such as Maximus) fused with nostalgic anxieties around technology. […] Arguably the most significant pattern to emerge in the cinema of Y2K is that of entanglement between threatened masculinity and nostalgia."
Etymology
Abbreviated from "year 2000", with "K" standing for 1000, as in the prefix kilo- though capital K as a prefix is often used as x1024. The correct S.I. Prefix is lowercase k.
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