Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
mid-eighties is a noun meaning "the time of life between 80 and 90". It carries one recorded sense.
the time of life between 80 and 90
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mid-eighties come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.