88 (number) - in Other Fields

In Other Fields

Eighty-eight is also:

• the year AD 88, 88 BC, or 1988
• in mm, a standard length of playing cards
• a popular ice cream bar manufactured by GB Glace
• the atomic number of radium
• the ASCII code for an upper-case X
• the number of keys on a piano (36 black and 52 white), a piano is sometimes called an "eighty eight"
• 88 Keys, character in Dick Tracy (1990 film)
• The digits indicated when all the segments of two seven-segment displays are illuminated
• Eighty Eight, a live album by the Christian rock band The 77s
• in the titles of songs:
  • "Rocket 88," a song first recorded at Sam Phillips' studio in 1951; Rocket 88 was a 1980s United Kingdom band named for the song
  • "88 Lines About 44 Women" by the band The Nails
  • "88" by the Canadian punk band Sum 41 on their 2004 album, Chuck
  • "88" by the English Nu-Metal band Apartment 26 on their second album, Music for the Massive
  • "88", a song by Level 42 on the album Strategy
  • "88" by hip hop act The Cool Kids
  • "88" by the Japanese electro-pop duo LM.C, or Lovely Mocochang.com

• the model number of the Oldsmobile 88 automobile and the AGM-88 HARM missile
• the QBU-88 (or Type 88) Chinese sniper rifle
• the number of the French department Vosges
• the designation of two freeways named Interstate 88, one in Illinois and another in New York
• the town of Eighty Eight, Kentucky
• used
  • in Japanese, often used to mean "a great many" or "countless"; numbers such as eighteen, eighty, eighty thousand, eight-hundred, eighty thousand, and the like can bear the same connotation
  • in Chinese SMS or chat, short for "byebye", from the Mandarin pronunciation "ba1 ba1" (8 - 8)
  • in US Citizen's Band and Amateur ("ham") radio slang, short for "love and kisses"; origin unknown.
  • in hip hop, where "88" stands for "HH," short for "hip hop"
• in Kill Bill, the name of O-Ren Ishii's Army, the Crazy 88
• the ISBN Group Identifier for books published in Italy and Switzerland
• in miles per hour, the speed that the DeLorean automobile must attain in order to travel in time, in the Back to the Future trilogy
• in the TV series Black Books (Series 2, Episode 2: "Fever"), the temperature (presumably in Fahrenheit) above which Manny's case of Dave's Syndrome will trigger, supposedly a parody of the similar use of the number 88 in the Back to the Future trilogy
• "the number of the Anti-Terrorist" in the documents submitted to NBC by Seung-Hui Cho prior to the Virginia Tech massacre on 16 April 2007
• the number of an anti-terrorist police squad, called "Detachment 88", set up by the Indonesian government following the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians
• Used to say "kisses and hugs" among morse code and amateur radio users, as it resembles an image of two lips kissing
• Tanner '88, Garry Trudeau's HBO series on the fictional campaign of Congressman Jack Tanner in his bid for the White House
• 88 Minutes, a 2008 film starring Al Pacino
• The Cambridge Z88 was a 1988 portable computer
• 88open was an industry standards group in '88 created by Motorola to standardize Unix systems
• An '88-level' is a named condition in the COBOL programming language
• The House on East 88th Street, a book by Bernard Waber
• 88-Keys, an American record producer and rapper
• The dead man's hand in poker is a pair of aces and a pair of 8's.
• In Texas hold 'em poker, the pocket pair 88 is referred to as the "Snowmen"
• 88 is the name of a gang in the 2006 American film Gridiron Gang starring Dwayne Johnson
• In the United States Navy, 88 is slang for the word "what". For example, "88 are you doing tonight?"
• Two genera of butterflies (Diaethria and Callicore) are called Eighty-eights because markings on their wings look like the number 88.
• The German 8.8 cm FlaK 18/36/37/41 anti-aircraft gun used in WWII was often referred to colloquially as an "88" (acht-acht in German)