Definition of "aughts" []

• The first decade of a century, such as 1900 to 1909 or 2000 to 2009, whose digit in the tens place is zero. The oughts, the noughties. (noun)

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• "People tend to wrinkle their noses when they hear the word "aughts" - though, to be fair, no one I've mentioned this to has offered a better alternative."
• "Whoever said the aughts were a lost decade for stocks clearly wasn't paying attention to what goes on beneath the surface of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard"
• "In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss White House party crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi, whether the aughts were the "decade from hell," and Eva Tanguay, the first rock star."