Describe the 80s in One Word

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Madonna invented this one with her Boy Toy belt on her 1984 Like a Virgin album.

. They were the jam man. Level 1 9 yr. Using up to three words describe these decades.

Other slang terms with the suffix -ball conceived in the 1980s and 1990s include goofball oddball and dirtball. Whoa gnarly idea dude. Dufus A polite way of saying someone is an idiot.

Answer 1 of 8. If you dont post comments for 7 days they both are reset. In case youre not aware of this there was a time in the early 80s where video games died and no one wanted to be involved in their production ever again.

The airheads back then went utterly ballistic for fantabulous spiffy lingo. I kid you not. Movies Rocky showed signs of the power of the franchise and discovered Roman numeral II III etc.

50s - innocent yet conformist. A stupid or unaware person. Footloose Seemed like every girl I went to high school with dressed like the girl in Flashdance torn t-shirts off of one shoulder legwarmers dance wear as normal clothes - even if you werent a dancerSeemed like every guy I went to high school with had a wide variety of well worn flanel shirts cut off at the shoulders and about a dozen.

Cars were going sideways stylistically. 60s - turbulent and transforming. And my outrageous hairstyle was most triumphant.

We probably still use a few of these phrases to this day but some we havent heard in thirty years. To choose another avatar click the Random avatar link. He had to cave to the one we know now as it had sounded the best by far.

Level 1 9 yr. The word is used to describe a dishonest person. One word to describe the 80s.

Slang terms from the 80s. Sleazeball is one of the first slang terms to make the list. My dad just bought me a brand new Firebird.

The term originated from a scene that started in mid-1980s in Belleville Michigan a suburb of Detroit. You might think that one word meaning yes -- with maybe the occasional yeah or sure -- would be sufficient for English. No swearing words in comments otherwise such comments will be censored.

Level 1 9 yr. Theres some like totally tubular 80s words that are completely boss and absolutely the bomb. 1Noun A word to describe a cute guy used as a toy for older woman.

It was used to describe them. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words its like a thesaurus but gives you a much broader set of related words rather than just synonyms.

Term implies that there is nothing but air in the subjects head. Biotech was beginning to show promise. The 80s were radical.

Your nickname and avatar are randomly selected. Flashdance If youre male. 70s - bad fashion otherwise nondescript except for Nixons impeachment and economic troubles 80s - la la land.

Four different themes were made and only one contained the words saved by the bell. Not much from that era is memorable. First said in the 1950s on the Howdy Doody Show it later made its way into surfer vernacular in the 60s and then into animation and everyday conversation.

If something is truly terrible you might describe it as grody to the max. Duude Woah or wow. 60s - groovy 70s - glam 80s - gloss 90s - grunge 00s - grift.

Dude where are we going. There were a lot of bright colors big hair and happy music. The decades are the 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s and 00s so far.

While playing around with word vectors and the HasProperty API of conceptnet I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. As with every decade there was also an entire unique language that seemed to become popular before completely phasing out. The word technoused to describe a genre of electronic dance music EDMcan either make you grimace or jump to your feet ready to lose yourself in the music.

Madonna invented this one with her Boy Toy belt on her 1984 Like a Virgin album. Those who think the 80s were better than the 90s clearly havent seen The Wackness or heard of Bubba Clinton. As the Los Angeles Times wrote in 1982 Grody is used to describe a.

Capitalism no longer had a skeptic in the White House. The 80s were a pretty outrageous time. These are the classic 80s affirmatives.

What an airhead Unrenounced to popular belief Valley Girls did not invent this word. Dudette is a female equivalent used less often. Here are my descriptions.

This word first originated in the 1880s but became a regular part of American vocabulary since the 1960s. Posted by 9 years ago. Many people in the 80s loved using the word cowabunga to express delight about a new job good grades or scoring some new neon duds.

The 1980s thought otherwise.

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