Roaring Twenties

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Roaring Twenties

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proper noun the Roaring Twenties · Roaring '20s

plural, plural only The 1920s, referring to the rapid economic expansion and modernization of the period. The economic boom and the “speculative orgy” that pervaded the Roaring Twenties faded abruptly during late October 1929 with the stock market crash (sometimes called the “Great Crash”) that precipitated the rise of The Great Depression.

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@misc{roaring_twenties_2026,
  title = {Roaring Twenties},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/roaring%20twenties},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}