'80s

'80s pl (plural only)

1. Alternative spelling of 80s.
   • 2004, Neal Pollack, Never Mind the Pollacks: A Rock and Roll Novel, page 205:

     The ’80s were fun, at least for me. With great pride, I can now claim to have been the first mainstream critic on the mailing list of SST Records, writing, of their initial Black Flag issue, "This record, a relentless wall of noise that is never less than noisy, sounds unlike anything else I've heard this year."

   • 2013 May 13, Judith Shulevitz, “The Lethality of Loneliness”, in The New Republic‎^[1], archived from the original on 31 March 2015:

     In the mid-to late ’80s, the UCLA lab obtained access to a long-term study of gay men who enrolled without knowing whether they were infected with HIV.