eighty-eight

American  

[ey-tee-eyt] / ˈeɪ tiˈeɪt /

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.

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adjective

1. amounting to 88 in number.

Example Sentences

“Five hundred and eighty-eight thousand people have died because they didn’t get this vaccine. Nobody died that did take it. That’s pretty good odds for me.”

From The Guardian

I am eighty-eight years old at this writing, and I know that those four hundred and thirty-one plays were serving to extend Thornton Wilder’s life.

From The New Yorker

One promethium isotope, with eighty-eight neutrons, has a half-life of a few days; the other, with eighty-six neutrons, has a half-life of a few years.

From The New Yorker

Jeannine, who is eighty-eight years old, wore her short hair, dyed light brown, tucked behind her ears.

From The New Yorker

O’Brien, who is eighty-eight, recently told me that she may yet write “some little poem, or fragments,” but almost certainly couldn’t manage another novel.

From The New Yorker