80s

See also: '80s and 80's

English

Alternative forms

• '80s, 80's

Noun

80s pl (plural only)

1. The decade of the 1980s.

   Synonyms: 1980s, eighties

   • 2014, Laura Di Battista, If It Bleeds It leads, page 125:

     It was cocaine. I snorted Blow a couple of times. It was the perfect 80s drug after all.

2. Temperatures from 80 to 89 degrees.
3. The decade of one's life from age 80 through age 89.
   • 2002 January 8, Cheong Suk-Wai, “Faith in a new tomorrow”, in The Straits Times:

     Many of his friends are joining a burgeoning international community of elderweds, or those who marry in their 60s, 70s or even 80s.

Translations

the decade of the 1980s — see eighties

See also

decades in English (edit)