Synonyms for 1980s
1980s

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1. 1980snoun

   Synonyms:
   80s, eighties

2. 1980snoun

   The decade that included the years 1980 to 1989. Also abbreviated as the '80s.

   Synonyms:
   eighties, 80s

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1. eighties, 1980snoun

   the decade from 1980 to 1989

   Synonyms:
   eighties, mid-eighties

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1. List of paraphrases for "1980s":

   eighties, 1980, 80s, mid-1980s, 80, eighty

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1. Dan Ives:

   The layoffs have been music to the ears of investors that have been sick and tired of Zuckerberg and Facebook spending money like a 1980s rockstar for the last few years.

2. President Obama:

   The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because, you know, the Cold War’s been over for 20 years.

3. Michael Weinstein:

   We have worked hard to build a condom culture over the last 30 years and we have undone a lot of that, the best way to prevent the spread of HIV is the use of condoms. This new generation didn't live through the worst of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and '90s.

4. Associated Press:

   Scholars developed it during the 1970s and 1980s in response to what they viewed as a lack of racial progress following the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, it centers on the idea that racism is systemic in the nation’s institutions and that they function to maintain the dominance of white people in society.

5. Rachel Wagoner:

   This is the biggest change to trash since recycling started in the 1980s.