oughts

== English == === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ɔːts/ (US) IPA(key): /ɑːts/ Rhymes: -ɔːts, -ɑːts === Noun === oughts plural of ought === Noun === oughts pl (plural only) Alternative spelling of aughts (“first decade of a century”). 2000, John Maxtone-Graham, Liners to the Sun, Sheridan House, Inc., →ISBN, page xii, And for the oughts—by which I suppose we must identify our new millennium's first decade—projected tonnage figures keep up the mind-boggling pace. === Anagrams === Stough, sought, toughs