Usually means: Decade of excess, innovation, and change.
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▸ noun:  the decade from 1980 to 1989

Similar:
1970s, 1990s, 1960s, 2000s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, l980s, eighties, 1920s, more...

Opposite:
modern, contemporary, futuristic, current, digital

Phrases:
Early 1980s recession, 1980s in film, Early 1980s recession in the United States, 1980s professional wrestling boom, 1980s in Japan, more...

Adjectives:
early, late, mid, middle, pre, turbulent, post, conservative, prosperous, thatcherite, troubled



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Similar:
1970s, 1990s, 1960s, 2000s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, l980s, eighties, 1920s, more...

Opposite:
modern, contemporary, futuristic, current, digital

Phrases:
Early 1980s recession, 1980s in film, Early 1980s recession in the United States, 1980s professional wrestling boom, 1980s in Japan, 1980s oil glut, 1980s austerity policy in Romania, more...

Adjectives:
early, late, mid, middle, pre, turbulent, post, conservative, prosperous, thatcherite, troubled



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