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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
eighty/ˈeɪti/

▶cardinal number (pl. eighties) equivalent to the product of eight and ten; ten less than ninety; 80. (Roman numeral: lxxx or LXXX)

– derivatives
eightieth ordinal number,
eightyfold adjective & adverb.

– origin OE hunde(a)htatig, from hund (of uncertain origin) + e(a)hta ‘eight’ + -tig (see -ty2).

'eighty' also found in these Oxford entries:

Big Brother - doublespeak - doublethink - eighty-six - fourscore - newspeak - octogenarian - Orwellian - seventy

Forum discussions with the word(s) "eighty" in the title:

"going on eighty"
eighty years’ imprisonment
eighty-four days drought of fish
Eighty-four years old with all her marbles.
eighty-six: verb [86]
Nearly eighty as he was,
One-eighty
She was eighty if she was a day.
Two thousand and eighty... one hundred
West Eighty-First

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