eightysomething meaning (colloquial): definition

eightysomething

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Etymology From eighty + -something.

Colloquial An indeterminate value between 80 (inclusive) and 90 (exclusive).

There in the doorway stood an eightysomething Las Vegas showgirl.2006, Laura Levine, The PMS Murder, page 52:

noun

Etymology From eighty + -something.

Colloquial A person between 80 and 89 years old.

She was a sprightly eightysomething.
Instead of twentysomethings with one rare but curable disease, they find eightysomethings with many common chronic diseases that aren't curable.2011, Mark Lachs, M.D., chapter 3, in What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Getting Older:

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

Synonyms: octogenarian, octogenary
Coordinate terms: teen, teenager (13–19), vicenarian (20–29), twentysomething (20–29), tricenarian (30–39), thirtysomething (30–39), quadragenarian (40–49), fortysomething (40–49), quinquagenarian (50–59), semicentenarian (50–59), fiftysomething (50–59), sexagenarian (60–69), sixtysomething (60–69), septuagenarian (70–79), seventysomething (70–79), nonagenarian (90–99), ninetysomething (90–99), centenarian (100–199), semisupercentenarian (105–109), supercentenarian (110+)