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dollar decade

noun

Etymology

Popularized by political scientist James Warren Prothro in his book The Dollar Decade: Business Ideas in the 1920's (1954).

Definitions

  1. The 1920s in the United States, marked by rapid economic expansion.

    • Near-synonyms: Jazz Age, Roaring Twenties
    • Yet if the boosterism of the “dollar decade” had a sounder basis in reality than did the boomerism of the 1880s, there was ballyhoo in generous measure all the way from the Mason-Dixon Line to Florida's Gold Coast.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of dollar decade.

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