Definition of "eighties" []

• Plural form of eighty. (noun)
• The decade of the 1880s, 1980s, etc. (noun)
• The decade of one's life from age 80 through age 89. (noun)

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• "One reason so many good horror writer went to seed in the eighties is they kept trying to do and say the same thing in the same way."
• "Anyone who came through the eighties is also used to the idea that from time to time a pea-brain can take charge of the White House and make his country do very silly things."
• "I think an important feature of the eighties is the growing preeminence of government-to-government relationships in international economic decision-making."