Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of eight offspring delivered at a single birth.
- noun A group or combination of eight associated by common properties or behavior.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music, a group of eight notes intended to take the place of six. Also
ottamole .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun one of a group of
eight babies born from the same mother during the same birth.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Tonight, the just-revealed startling calls the octuplet mom made to 911 when she thought one of her kids was missing.
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Octu-mom 911 - the just revealed disturbing calls the octuplet mom made to 911 when she thought one of her kids was missing.
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HAMMER: Plus, octu-mom 911 - the just revealed disturbing call the octuplet mom made to 911 when she thought one of her kids was missing.
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ANDERSON: Also, explosive new octu-mom developments - octu-mom 911, the just-revealed disturbing calls the octuplet mom made to 911 when she thought one of her kids was missing.
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Before Nadya Suleman burst into our lives by having a litter of kids, I hadn't heard the word "octuplet" more than a few times, and probably a few of those times thought the person was talking about some sort of deep-sea octopus.
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It's also so rare that Microsoft Word's spellcheck doesn't recognize the word "octuplet," as several online commenters reported.
RHRealityCheck.org 2009
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It's also so rare that Microsoft Word's spellcheck doesn't recognize the word "octuplet," as several online commenters reported.
RHRealityCheck.org 2009
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Or this country has its priorities ass backwards because all the news talks about is Michael Jackson, this “controversy,” and the octuplet babies when there is a war right now, health care reform, environmental degradation and the list goes on …. point is there are much more important things to be talking about.
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I mean, just think how much better the world would be if we could keep folks like Al-Bashir and that octuplet lady from reproducing.
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Check out this picture of very pregnant octuplet mom Nadya Suleman just eight days before giving birth.
Octuplet Mom “OctoMom” Nadya Suleman’s $1 Million Porno Video Offer 2009
whichbe commented on the word octuplet
One of a group of eight babies born from the same mother during the same birth, (i.e. one of eight twins). (Wiktionary)
July 4, 2008