aughts
Speech parts
1. aughts - Noun
2. aughts - Adjective
Meaning
aughts pl (plural only)
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.
aughts (not comparable)
From or evoking the first through tenth years of a century (chiefly the 2000s).
Dialup internet is so aughts.
Anagrams
Examples
Not to be confused with SpongeBob: Sponge Out of Water, this film was made at the peak of SpongeBob’s popularity in the early aughts and is entirely animated.
When they first had MLK day it was combined with Lee-Jackson Day, so it became Lee-Jackson King Day in the late 80's it stayed that way until the early aughts when they separated the two days and made them each holidays on different days.
By the early aughts, the press counted consortium members from Northeastern University, University of Vermont, University of New Hampshire, and Tufts University among its ranks.
As a result, the Wizards of the aughts became towering figures in the nascent basketblogger scene even as the team plateaued.
As a woman of the aughts, this seemed…
In the late aughts he wanted, badly, to get on television.