eighty-eight

eighty-eight
/ay"tee ayt"/, n.
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.
adj.
5. amounting to 88 in number.

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