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Y2K

[wahy-too-key]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

abbreviation

the year 2000.
Also called Y2K bug.��Also called millennium bug.��Also called Y2K problem,.��a bug that could cause computers or software to misinterpret a year after 1999 as having the first two digits 19 instead of 20, due to the coding of dates using only the last two digits of the four-digit year.

adjective

relating to or characteristic of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
The outfit merges Y2K aesthetics with contemporary trends.

Y2K

noun

another name for the year 2000 _ad (esp referring to the millennium bug)

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of Y2K¹

First recorded in 1995–2000; Y(ear) + 2 + K symbol for the number 1000

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of Y2K¹

C20: _y ( _ear ) + 2 + _k (in the sense: thousand)

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But with new generations taking inspiration from Y2K culture, their new millennium, pop-meets-R&B energy has had a recent resurgence - inspiring younger acts like FLO - and it's not going away anytime soon.

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The original five-film franchise spanned 2000 to 2011, years that included the Y2K panic, 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the two presidential terms of George W. Bush.

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I was giving trade the first night, but this is my distressed Y2K meets my version of rustic cowboy.

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Remember Y2K, the impending doom that would befall us all when ill-equipped computer systems switched from “99” to “00” at the stroke of midnight on December 31, 1999?

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The track was followed by the single “Sugar Water Cyanide,” a distorted take on Y2K bubblegum pop, which came out in December.

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