Definitions
The first decade of a century, especially the years 2000 through 2009.
Word origin
From the sense of aught to refer to the number zero.
Used in a sentence
“The 20th Century’s Aughts and Teens: OPERETTA [chapter title]”
“In the late 1990s and early aughts, at the beginning of the anti-human trafficking movement, people did use the term child prostitution.”
“Dialup internet is so aughts.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Zero years”6 letters
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