eighty-seven

[ ey-tee-sev-uh n ]

/ ˈeɪ tiˈsɛv ən /

a cardinal number, 80 plus 7.

a symbol for this number, as 87 or LXXXVII.

a set of this many persons or things.

amounting to 87 in number.

Words nearby eighty-seven

Eighty-seven percent said yep, the weekend golfer and father of two sure is.

Poll: Daily Beast Readers on Obama Approval, GOP & Odds of a Romney Win |Brian Ries |September 7, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
In America, when asked eighty-seven percent of the public favored building more wind farms.

Winds of Change: A Status Report |Daily Beast Promotions |January 18, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
The wall was eighty-seven feet broad, and three hundred and fifty feet high.

Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study |Dwight Moody
Yes, it was as M'sieu said, eighty-seven--that is, counting himself.

The Forest |Stewart Edward White

At any rate there they lay upon the ground, eighty-seven of them, each with his throat slit from ear to ear.

The History of Cuba, vol. 3 |Willis Fletcher Johnson
One of the stories of the old Wiltshire days I picked up was from an old woman, aged eighty-seven, in the Wilton workhouse.

A Shepherd's Life |W. H. Hudson
Las Casas did not live to finish the task, though he labored upon it down to 1561, when he was eighty-seven years old.

Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery |Justin Winsor

eighty-seven

cricket a score traditionally regarded as being unlucky

possibly because 13 less than a century