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threes and eights

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interjection

Citizens Band Radio Slang.

  1. best wishes; good luck: used as a sign-off.

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Neither were the skaters quite equal to cutting "threes" and "eights" upon the ice; they could only push themselves along by means of a pole with an iron spike at the end.

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