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eighty-eight

num. 1 Number between eighty-seven and eighty-nine; decimal 88 2 An abbreviation for 'Hugs and kisses' in amateur radio. Used especially in Morse code. 3 (context slang English) A piano (from the number of keys)

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eighty-eight

adj. being eight more than eighty [syn: 88, lxxxviii]

Usage examples of "eighty-eight".

And they listened to the Cantata for Bongo in A Minor with all eighty-eight tones clear and deep from the clava drum that only Deutcher 4 could play.

Cantata for Bongo in A Minor with all eighty-eight tones clear and deep from the clava drum that only Deutcher 4 could play.

He swallowed two straight scotches and another eighty-eight and he hit the street again.

He might even go eighty-eight cubes if the guys at the shop thought his old Shovelhead engine could handle it.

Shikoku, visiting the eighty-eight temples associated with the Daishi.

About eighty-eight percent of all arsons are up from the floor, in other words the radiant heat flux .

The machine now uses eighty-eight hundred of the new five-centimeter aperture dipoles and needs an extra kilometer or so of tunnel.

A particular description, composed about a century after its foundation, enumerates a capitol or school of learning, a circus, two theatres, eight public, and one hundred and fifty-three private baths, fifty-two porticos, five granaries, eight aqueducts or reservoirs of water, four spacious halls for the meetings of the senate or courts of justice, fourteen churches, fourteen palaces, and four thousand three hundred and eighty-eight houses, which, for their size or beauty, deserved to be distinguished from the multitude of plebeian inhabitants.

I escaped from that only to be driven over here and told my own death is the sole bargaining chip against the lives of eighty-eight more people.

During the months that Eighty-eight fell free toward the sun, Captain Doyle reduced the working hours of his crew and turned them to the comparatively light labor of building a hotel and converting the little roofed-in valley into a garden spot.

Twenty-six hundred forty-one single-spaced pages, eighty-eight lines to the page, one hundred twenty characters to the line.

From the day she had landed in Honolulu eighty-eight years before, she had forsworn forever the starving villages of China and had determined to become a permanent resident of Hawaii.

At the time of Felix's death, the farm inventory listed one male African lion, three cougars, a gelded Cape buffalo, two Kodiak bears, ninety-seven parrots and macaws, eight Nile crocodiles, forty-two turtles, seven hundred assorted lizards, ninety-three snakes (venomous and nonvenomous) and eighty-eight rhesus monkeys.

Most of the suites on eighty-eight were leased by trade missions from small obscure foreign nations, and their skeleton staffs spent most of their time up at the UN.

The longest cruise had been eighty-eight days and thirteen hours, when one of them had managed to find itself in an unfavorable position with respect to a diffuse star and had to recede at speeds that built up to over 0.