50s

alternative '50s · alternative 50's

1. pluralplural onlyThe decade of the 1950s.

   “It’s possible when we started building research stations in the 50s and 60s words like ‘boondoggle’ might have been common at that time and it became a regular part of speech … in Antarctic culture it can take on a life of its own.”

   2024 June 20, Eva Corlett, “Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang”, in The Guardian

   Synonyms: 1950s, fifties

2. pluralplural onlyA range of the numbers fifty (50) to fifty-nine (59).

   No way you're in your 50s! I find that hard to believe.

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   Temperatures today will range from the low to high 50s.