English

Alternative forms

• eighty-something

Noun

eightysomething ‎(countable and uncountable, plural eightysomethings)

1. (countable, colloquial) A person aged between 80 and 89 years.
   • 2011, Mark Lachs, M.D., What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Getting Older, Chapter 3:

     Instead of twentysomethings with one rare but curable disease, they find eightysomethings with many common chronic diseases that aren't curable.

   • 2012, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women, page 429:

     Aunt Zena and Uncle Bill Druss are the coolest eightysomethings I know of, and I will gladly eat the early bird special or visit Sawgrass Mills with them anytime.

Synonyms

• octogenarian

Numeral

eightysomething

1. Between eighty and ninety.
   • 2006, Laura Levine, The PMS Murder, page 52:

     There in the doorway stood an eightysomething Las Vegas showgirl.