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
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Hugh, eighty-eight, a Christian Scientist living in Connecticut, is another amazingly healthy person.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2019
Andrew, eighty-eight, is a good example of a Denier.
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
My mourning mind, compromised and searching for coincidence, processes the age Toni Morrison was when she died, eighty-eight, as two infinity signs, straightened and snatched right-side up.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 7, 2019
Number eighty-eight flips up to her feet, which had shone in the air, shone as she spun, glittering in the light.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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