The ordinal number '8' is often used in place of the phonemes that would make the sound 'ate' in written English.
I say 'often', I actually mean 'often (by bumpers)'
The habit could have originally developed among linux {fucktards in chatrooms, or 14 year old scrubbers text messaging on mobile phones. Either that or from 'old-school' rave act Altern8 (still DJ-ing in and around Stoke-on-Trent, kids!)
Whichever way you look at it, it looks shit and dosn't make you look cool.
"C U L8R M8!!!!!"

"He was a sk8r boi..."

"I'd rather menstru8 a ten ton w8 than write in such an illiter8 way, dude."
by Stooo March 21, 2003
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Her new "8" tattoo means eternity.
by abbrevi8 July 19, 2005
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Fuck 9.
Lil 8:
8 Gang 8Gang 8Gang 8Gang
8Gang 8Gang 8Gang 8Gang
Spent 8 racks on a new chain
My bitch love doin' 8
I fuck a bitch i forgot 8
I can't buy no bitch no 8 ring
Rather and go buy 8 ay
My 8 cost more than your rent
Your 8 still livin' in a tent (it do)
Still slingin' 8 from your jents
Me and my 8 take

None of these 8 'aint new to me
Fucking my 8 call it 8ery
by 8 Gang December 1, 2018
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One of the most softest and calming songs on the 'WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?' album. Periodt.
If you don't like Billie Eilish's song 8 then I dislike you.
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The most symmetrical number of all. No matter how you split it, it will be symmetrical.
Kid: What are you two doing out here? Aren't you late?
Soul: School starts at 7, it's 10, technically you're late too.
Kid: Don't say 7!
Soul: What?
Kid: Say 8! 8 is the perfect number. Symmetrical in all ways.

-Soul Eater episode 6
by asdfpeanutasdf June 26, 2010
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8 is the answer every engineer gives when he has no friggin' idea of the solution to a problem.
Jack: So how many newtons did you find for question four?
Will: 8.
by failedmyfirstyear July 10, 2009
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