aughts
noun/oːts/UK/ɒts/CA/ɔts/US/ɑts/
Etymology
From the sense of aught to refer to the number zero.
Definitions
The first decade of a century, such as 1900 to 1909 or 2000 to 2009, whose digit in the…
The first decade of a century, such as 1900 to 1909 or 2000 to 2009, whose digit in the tens place is zero; the noughties.
- The 20th Century’s Aughts and Teens: OPERETTA [chapter title]
From or evoking the first decade of a century (chiefly the 2000s).
- Dialup internet is so aughts.
- Meyer and his team collected the participants in a very aughts way — through Craigslist.
- He's testing out new experiments with knotting and macramé too, tying up dresses and trousers for a look that feels very aughts—and very now.
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No curated loop yet for aughts. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA