EIGHTIES meaning: Decade of excess, innovation, cultural shifts

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eighties: Merriam-Webster
eighties: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
eighties, the eighties: Collins English Dictionary
eighties: Vocabulary.com
Eighties, eighties: Wordnik
eighties, the eighties: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
eighties: Wiktionary
eighties: Dictionary.com
eighties: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Eighties (disambiguation), Eighties (song), Eighties, The Eighties (miniseries), The Eighties: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
eighties: Rhymezone
eighties: FreeDictionary.org
eighties: Mnemonic Dictionary
eighties: TheFreeDictionary.com

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eighties: Encyclopedia

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eighties: Idioms

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eighties, the eighties: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  The decade of the 1880s, 1980s, etc.
▸ noun:  The decade of one's life from age 80 through age 89.
▸ noun:  (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 80 and 89.
▸ adjective:  From or evoking the 81st through 90th years of a century (chiefly the 1980s).

Similar:

mid-eighties, seventies, nineties, twenties, fifties, zeroes, 1980s, forties, tens, 1880s, more...

Opposite:

nineties, contemporary, modern, present day

Phrases:

mid eighties, nineteen eighties, the eighties, A Kick Up the Eighties, eighties teen flick exclamation, more...

Adjectives:

early, late, eighteen, middle, nineteen, mid, low, seventeen, upper, latter, fifteen

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