eight·y-eight

(ā′tē-āt′)

1. A high-velocity gun with a caliber of 88 millimeters, used by German troops as an antiaircraft and antitank weapon during World War II.

2. An artillery shell, especially one fired by this gun.

3. Slang A piano.

[Sense 3, from the number of its keys.]

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eighty-eight - being eight more than eighty

88, lxxxviii

cardinal - being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers"

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"In about eighty-eight hours," replied the captain.

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There was twelve acres of clearin’ at ten dollars, and eighty-eight at one, and the whole came to two hundred and eighty-six dollars and a half, after paying the men.”

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Summary: Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Aug 13 (ANI): Eighty-eight people have died across 14 districts of flood-battered Kerala while 40 are missing, authorities said on Tuesday.

Flood fury in Kerala kills 88 people, 40 missing

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's former Foreign Minister and a renowned diplomat Abdul Sattar has passed away at the age of eighty-eight. In a statement, Foreign Office spokesperson Dr.

Pakistan's former Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar passes away

In Pakistan, children aged 10 to 14 years actively participate in the laboring activities while eighty-eight percent of these children hail from rural areas.

Child labour

These projects, on completion, will generate three hundred and eighty-eight megawatt electricity.

KP govt to construct 10 hydro power projects in Malakand, Hazara divisions

Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865.

Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865

Eighty-eight people were trapped on a SkyCab cable car on Langkawi island due to a technical problem this evening.

Malfunctioning Langkawi cable car traps 88, leaves hundreds stranded

Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865 poses a simple but striking question not by considering slavery's rise and fall in this country; but asking why it took longer here than anywhere else in the world.

Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865

According to the data released by the Authority on Monday, eighty-eight people have died in Punjab, twenty-four in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, forty-seven in Sindh, twenty-seven Balochistan, thirty-three in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and fifteen in FATA.

234 people died, 1129 injured in floods this year: NDMA

All In 4-0; Spruce Street Tavern 3-0; Dragon Eighty-eight 2-1; Showtime 2-1; Cogswell Sprinkler 2-2; A&J Grocery 2-2; The Old Timer 1-3; Crystal Club 0-3; St.

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eighty-eight militants have been killed and dozens wounded in last two days,

88 militants killed in military operation in Pakistani tribal agency