Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A high-velocity gun with a caliber of 88 millimeters, used by German troops as an antiaircraft and antitank weapon during World War II.
- noun An artillery shell, especially one fired by this gun.
- noun Slang A piano.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Number between
eighty-seven andeighty-nine ; decimal 88 - noun An abbreviation for 'Hugs and kisses' in
amateur radio . Used especially inMorse code . - noun slang A piano (from the number of keys)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being eight more than eighty
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The western imperial powers, England, Frane, Netherlands and the US have been helping themselves to Arab oil since 122, for some eighty-eight years.
Think Progress » Rep. Gohmert introduces resolution endorsing an Israeli military strike on Iran. 2010
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Maddux perfected a two-seam fastball that he threw somewhere between eighty-six and eighty-eight miles per hour.
In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011
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This is also why even as the prime minister was making his apology in Jakarta, eighty-eight members of the Diet, most of whom were members of his own ruling party, deliberately and defiantly paid their respects to Japan's war dead at the controversial Yasukuni Shrine where most of the Class A war criminals were buried.
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The western imperial powers, England, Frane, Netherlands and the US have been helping themselves to Arab oil since 122, for some eighty-eight years.
Think Progress » Rep. Gohmert introduces resolution endorsing an Israeli military strike on Iran. 2010
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This kit can save you up to eighty-eight dollars for an HP 3600 black cartridge.
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But now, a hundred eighty-eight in five nights of work, all of a sudden it didn't look so bad.
Paper House Walter Bjorkman 2011
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But now, a hundred eighty-eight in five nights of work, all of a sudden it didn't look so bad.
Paper House Walter Bjorkman 2011
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In 1993, at least one hundred eighty-eight workers were killed in a fire at a toy factory in Thailand; the exact death toll was never known, because many of the bodies were never found.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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It took women 147 years after the first Tea Party to gain the right to vote and another eighty-eight after that to field female candidates from each party in the presidential election.
Mary Shannon Little: Man Up Sarah! This Is Your Sister Souljah Moment Mary Shannon Little 2010
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In 1993, at least one hundred eighty-eight workers were killed in a fire at a toy factory in Thailand; the exact death toll was never known, because many of the bodies were never found.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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