Meaning

3 senses
  1. A box-to-box midfielder.

  2. A player in the scrum, who controls the movement of the scrum, and can pick up the ball exiting the scrum; eighthman.

  3. The batsman who bats eighth.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. His extension number is eight four three two.

    deIhre Durchwahlnummer ist acht vier drei zwei.

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  2. Number eight is "hachi" in Japanese, as it reminds one of "hatching from an egg."

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  3. The Chinese love the number eight, but the Japanese love the number seven. There are differences in cultures between these two countries.

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Forms

plural: number eights
Singularnumber eight
Pluralnumber eights

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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