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eighty-eight

[ ey-tee-eyt ]

noun

  1. a cardinal number, 80 plus 8.
  2. a symbol for this number, as 88 or LXXXVIII.
  3. a set of this many persons or things.
  4. Slang. the keys of a piano or the piano itself:

    tickle the old eighty-eight.



adjective

  1. 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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