Meanings
dollar decade1
alternative Dollar Decade
- uncountableThe 1920s in the United States, marked by rapid economic expansion.
Near-synonyms: Jazz Age, Roaring Twenties
1 more example
Yet if the boosterism of the “dollar decade” had a sounder basis in reality than did the boomerism of the 1880s, there was ballyhoo in generous measure all the way from the Mason-Dixon Line to Florida's Gold Coast.
2014, Melissa Walker, James C. Cobb, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, →ISBN
Dollar Decade2
- uncountableAlternative letter-case form of dollar decade.
Origin
Popularized by political scientist James Warren Prothro in his book The Dollar Decade: Business Ideas in the 1920's (1954).
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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