oughts

oughts
noun /ɔːts,ɑːts/
A decade such as that from 1900 to 1909 C.E., or 2000 to 2009, where the digit in the tens place is zero.

He and his clever staff of minor blackguards exploited to the full every weakness and caries in the London Society of the eighties, nineties, and oughts.


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