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  • noun the time of life between 80 and 90.

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  • noun the time of life between 80 and 90

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Examples

  • His helper, herself in her mid-eighties and therefore barely younger than the serious writer himself, reminds him to throw in the yellow pill “every hour on the hour, if you please.”

    The Serious Writer Occupies Wall Street Marcus Speh 2011

  • However, by the mid-eighties, I switched to the Democratic Party.

    More Moderate vs. Conservative GOP battles ahead 2010

  • 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.

    Cuisine From The Costa Blanca 2009

  • I looked cautiously through the part in the curtains and saw a woman who had to be somewhere in her mid-eighties.

    Powdered Sugar on Bare Skin Jerry Ratch 2011

  • 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.

    Michael Chabon discusses his life-long interest in comic books which inspired him to write The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay 2010

  • 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.

    Cuisine From The Costa Blanca 2009

  • 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.

    Cuisine From The Costa Blanca 2009

  • 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.

    Cuisine From The Costa Blanca 2009

  • 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.

    Cuisine From The Costa Blanca 2009

  • 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.

    Cuisine From The Costa Blanca 2009

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