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Translingual
78
Symbol
mul numeral symbol previous 77 next 79
The cardinal number seventy-eight.
Category:Hindu-Arabic script
English
Noun
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en retronym A gramophone record played at 78 revolutions per minute.
en 2009 w:Jennifer Worth Farewell to the East End Weidenfeld & Nicholson 273 She swallowed hard, and her arm jerked sideways, knocking over a table lamp, which fell onto the record player, where our favourite 78 was spinning round.
Related terms
33
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Chinese
Etymology
Reading it as zh 七八 qībā seven-eight, which is a near-homonym of 雞巴 dick.
Pronunciation
qībā n
Noun
zh noun
zh internet slang vulgar zh 雞巴 jībā