Roaring Twenties

American  

plural noun

1. the 1920s regarded as a boisterous era of prosperity, fast cars, jazz, speakeasies, and wild youth.

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Roaring Twenties Cultural  

1. The 1920s in the United States, called “roaring” because of the exuberant, freewheeling popular culture of the decade. The Roaring Twenties was a time when many people defied Prohibition, indulged in new styles of dancing and dressing, and rejected many traditional moral standards. (See flappers and Jazz Age.)

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Etymology

Origin of Roaring Twenties

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

British music star FKA twigs is to play Josephine Baker in a new biopic of the Roaring Twenties icon who became a hero of the French Resistance and the American civil rights movement.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

“The glamour of the Roaring Twenties is something I really want to capture,” Gareth Banner, Ned’s managing director, said in a Washington Post feature on the DC property.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2025

"The Roaring Twenties saw major advances in science and technology. But the decade also brought the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression."

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2023

The deadly 1918-20 influenza pandemic gave way to the prosperous Roaring Twenties in the United States, the most powerful economic expansion to that point in history.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2022

During the years right after my birth and well into the Roaring Twenties, the Greenbrier was very popular among the industrialists and other extremely wealthy people in American society.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson