Definition of "mid-eighties" [mid-eighties]

• The time of life between 80 and 90. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "That whole "Blackened Red Snapper" business that started in the mid-eighties pretty much wiped out the population, which is now coming back, thanks in no small part to Chefs 'Collaborative."
• "But it's pretty clear that readership of comics has been declining for some time ... since about 1945, really, but precipitously since the mid-eighties or so."
• "I looked cautiously through the part in the curtains and saw a woman who had to be somewhere in her mid-eighties."