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figure-eighted

figure-eighted is the simple past and past participle of figure-eight.

Meaning of figure-eight

Verb

figure-eight (third-person singular simple present figure-eights, present participle figure-eighting, simple past and past participle figure-eighted)

  1. To move or cause to move in a figure eight pattern.
    • For two minutes we figure-eighted back and forth across the face of the mountain and then popped out right beside the sidewalk café.1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 61

Questions about figure-eighted

What is figure-eighted the simple past and past participle of?
Figure-eighted is the simple past and past participle of figure-eight.

Words near figure-eighted in the dictionary

  1. figure-caster
  2. figure-casters
  3. figure-eight
  4. figure-eight hitch
  5. figure-eight hitches
  6. figure-eighted
  7. figure-eighting
  8. figure-eights
  9. figure-head
  10. figure-heads
  11. figure-hugging

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