Words at Play : Top 10 User-Submitted Words, Vol. 1
Definition:
the years 2000 through 2009
Example:
Here in the United States, we spent New Year's weekend bidding good riddance to the awful, awful aughties a miserable
decade of bubbles and busts, rising health care bills and soaring deficits, domestic terror attacks and overseas quagmires. Ross
Douthat, New York Times, January 4, 2010
Submitted by:
Art Fisher, VA
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