80s

• '80s, 80's

80s pl (plural only)

1. The decade of the 1980s.

   Synonyms: 1980s, eighties

   • 2014, Laura Di Battista, If It Bleeds It leads, page 125:

     It was cocaine. I snorted Blow a couple of times. It was the perfect 80s drug after all.

   • 2025 July 27, Kathleen Magramo, “The game is almost over for one of Hong Kong’s last mahjong carvers”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     She started learning the craft at age 13 from her father, who founded the family's tile business, Kam Fat Mahjong, in 1962. Masters who would visit Hong Kong during its manufacturing heyday in the 1970s and 80s also shared their techniques and trained apprentices.

2. Temperatures from 80 to 89 degrees.
3. The decade of one's life from age 80 through age 89.
   • 2002 January 8, Cheong Suk-Wai, “Faith in a new tomorrow”, in The Straits Times:

     Many of his friends are joining a burgeoning international community of elderweds, or those who marry in their 60s, 70s or even 80s.