Meaning of 1970s | Babel Free

Definitions

The decade beginning in 1970 and ending in 1979.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“Joybubbles (the legal name of the former Joe Engressia since 1991), a blind genius with perfect pitch who accidentally found he could make free phone calls by whistling tones and went on to play a pivotal role in the 1970s subculture of “phone phreaks,” died on Aug. 8 in Minneapolis. […] Well before the mid-1970s, when digitalization ended the tone-based system, Joybubbles had stopped stealing calls.”

“The production on “Liverpool 8” has the heft and definition of modern multitracking, resembling Mr. Starr’s early-1970s hits rather than the Beatles themselves.”

“On the Alxa Plateau of Inner Mongolia, Gaxun Nur Lake (262 km²) dried in the 1970s and the Sogo Nur Lake in the 1980s.”

“Sandra used to be a regular club-goer with her husband and two young sons in the 1970s.”

“The sysprogs of the 1970s and early '80s also tended the mainframe as it shook and rattled incongruously on the edge of Dartmouth's Colonial campus.”

“Wildlife biologist Stanley Temple hypothesised that perhaps the dodo tree was dependent on its seeds passing through the digestive system of dodos in order to properly germinate and that the handful of individuals in the 1970s were the last remaining trees from seeds that passed through a dodo in the 1690s-1700s when they went extinct.”

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