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eighty-eight
[ ey-tee-eyt ]
noun
- a cardinal number, 80 plus 8.
- a symbol for this number, as 88 or LXXXVIII.
- a set of this many persons or things.
- Slang. the keys of a piano or the piano itself:
tickle the old eighty-eight.
adjective
- amounting to 88 in number.
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Example Sentences
“I will feel some justice has been done,” said White, now eighty-eight.
"Eighty-eight is a pretty good year," Kurland told me of his age before he died.
Eighty-eight years old this month, he remains without equal as a strategic thinker.
A hundred and eighty-eight were for adhering to the vote of the eleventh of December.
On a division, the resolutions were carried by a majority of two hundred and eighty-eight against two hundred and eight.
This amendment was carried by a majority of one hundred and eighty-eight against one hundred and sixty-seven.
Two hundred and eighty-eight grams of the crude material were then extracted several times with 50 per cent.
He wrote six hundred pages and tore up all but two hundred and eighty-eight.
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