eighty-eight
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 80 plus 8.
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a symbol for this number, as 88 or LXXXVIII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
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Slang. the keys of a piano or the piano itself.
tickle the old eighty-eight.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Andrew, eighty-eight, is a good example of a Denier.
From Salon • Sep. 15, 2019
Hugh, eighty-eight, a Christian Scientist living in Connecticut, is another amazingly healthy person.
From Salon • Sep. 15, 2019
“Our whole intention was, and still is, to allow people to get out of their inherited orthodoxies and into the business of discovering truth,” Murphy, who is eighty-eight, told me recently.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 19, 2019
Merce Cunningham died in 2009, at the age of ninety; Paul Taylor last year, at eighty-eight.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 24, 2019
The eighty-eight players in the First Canadian Open may have composed a stronger roster than had been fielded at the United States Open a few weeks earlier.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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