Under the Whyte notation system, a Mallet-type locomotive with two leading wheels on a leading truck, two sets of eight driving wheels, and no trailing wheels.

plural of 2-8-8-2

plural of 2-8-8-0

plural of 0-8-8-0

plural of 4-8-8-2

plural of 2-8-8-4

plural of 4-8-8-4

(computing) Unicode Transformation Format-8, a variable-width encoding scheme for Unicode characters, using sequences of one to four one-byte (eight-bit) code units per character.

(literally, billiards) The eighth numbered ball. / A cocktail made with vodka and V8 vegetable juice. / (slang) An eighth of an ounce, especially as a drug quantity. / (slang) 3.5 grams of cocaine.

(curling) The 8-foot diameter circle in the house.