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eight
     
8 written informal
a way of writing parts of words that sound like '-ate', '-eat', or '-ait', used especially in emails and text messages:
gr8 (=great)
I h8 (=hate) homework!
It's 2 l8 (=too late)
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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