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figure-eights

figure-eights is the third-person singular simple present indicative of figure-eight.

figure-eights is the plural 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-eights

What is figure-eights the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Figure-eights is the third-person singular simple present indicative of figure-eight.

Words near figure-eights in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: figure-eights (page history and authors); figure-eight (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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