'80s

Etymology

Shortening of 1980s.

Noun

'80s pl (plural only)

1. The 1980s.
   • 2004, Neal Pollack, Never Mind the Pollacks: A Rock and Roll Novel, page 205:

     The ’80s were fun, at least for me. With great pride, I can now claim to have been the first mainstream critic on the mailing list of SST Records, writing, of their initial Black Flag issue, "This record, a relentless wall of noise that is never less than noisy, sounds unlike anything else I've heard this year."

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