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  [ey-tee] /ˈeɪ ti/ noun, plural eighties. 1. a cardinal number, ten times eight. 2. a symbol for this number, as 80 or LXXX. 3. a set of this many persons or things. 4. eighties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 80 through 89, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of […]

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• Eighty-eight

  [ey-tee-eyt] /ˈeɪ tiˈeɪt/ noun 1. a cardinal number, 80 plus 8. 2. a symbol for this number, as 88 or LXXXVIII. 3. a set of this many persons or things. 4. Slang. the keys of a piano or the piano itself: tickle the old eighty-eight. adjective 5. amounting to 88 in number.

• Eighty-eighth

  [ey-tee-eytth, -eyth] /ˈeɪ tiˈeɪtθ, -ˈeɪθ/ adjective 1. next after the eighty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 88. 2. being one of 88 equal parts. noun 3. an eighty-eighth part, especially of one (1/88). 4. the eighty-eighth member of a series.

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