Definitions

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  • noun rare, humorous A decade running from the first year of a century to the tenth.

Etymologies

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Perhaps from nought and eighties.

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Examples

  • The oughties were the decade in which popular culture died.

    The Insular Decade 2009

  • The oughties were a decade entirely defined by our hesitant first steps of acclimation to the internet.

    The Insular Decade 2009

  • The oughties were the decade we realized that social relations are comprised of networks and awkwardly rushed to reframe all our relations upon that premise.

    The Insular Decade 2009

  • Ben Kay tells me that the Brits are referring to it as the "oughties" (this is the same pattern that has them referring to garbage cans as "rubbish bins.")

    The Toad Stool by Alan Wolk 2009

  • Ben Kay tells me that the Brits are referring to it as the "oughties" (this is the same pattern that has them referring to garbage cans as "rubbish bins.")

    The Toad Stool by Alan Wolk 2009

  • Ben Kay tells me that the Brits are referring to it as the "oughties" (this is the same pattern that has them referring to garbage cans as "rubbish bins.")

    The Toad Stool by Alan Wolk 2009

  • Ben Kay tells me that the Brits are referring to it as the "oughties" (this is the same pattern that has them referring to garbage cans as "rubbish bins.")

    The Toad Stool by Alan Wolk 2009

  • We will NEVER forget the oughties and the naughty Republicans that colored that decade red.

    Parker Griffith's staff resigns 2010

  • Lebanese politics was punctuated by a string of unsolved assassinations that started during the war years and continued into the oughties.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Lebanese politics was punctuated by a string of unsolved assassinations that started during the war years and continued into the oughties.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

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