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  • noun The cardinal number immediately following ninety-eight and preceding one hundred.
  • noun countable A traditional British ice cream cone with a flaky chocolate bar inserted, usually made with soft serve.
  • noun uncountable A simple card game with a running total, players dropping out if they would be forced to bring the total above ninety-nine.

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  • adjective being nine more than ninety

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Examples

  • Ho-ho-ho, ninety-nine bottles of love on the wall; ninety-nine bottles of love.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • Do a quick search online for the phrase “get six-pack abs,” and you will get more than a million results; try “weight loss,” and you will get more than ninety-nine million results.

    Body by Design Kris Gethin 2011

  • The middle-class continues to flounder under the weight of years of Republican policies -- policies that consigned wealth from ninety-nine percent of the American population, to the one-percent of wealthiest Americans.

    Shahid Mahmood: The Total Sum of Tiny Pushes Shahid Mahmood 2011

  • If we want to learn a given language, the non-autodidacts among us ninety-nine times out of a hundred will prefer to learn from a native speaker.

    N is for Native-speakerism « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • However, the recognition that the "ninety-nine percent" are the true seat of political power loosens the chokehold our mainstream media has placed on this nation's conversation for over thirty years.

    Adam Klugman: Mainstream Media... Occupy This! Adam Klugman 2011

  • Do a quick search online for the phrase “get six-pack abs,” and you will get more than a million results; try “weight loss,” and you will get more than ninety-nine million results.

    Body by Design Kris Gethin 2011

  • “Ninety-eight . . . ninety-nine . . . one hundred!”

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • I believe that writing is ninety-nine percent perspiration and one percent inspiration, but for inspiration to hit you have to be at your desk writing, whether or not you're in the mood.

    A Conversation with Donna Woolfolk Cross 2010

  • “Ninety-eight . . . ninety-nine . . . one hundred!”

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • However, the recognition that the "ninety-nine percent" are the true seat of political power loosens the chokehold our mainstream media has placed on this nation's conversation for over thirty years.

    Adam Klugman: Mainstream Media... Occupy This! Adam Klugman 2011

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  • a soft-serve ice-cream cone served with a Cadbury's milk flake stuck into it

    March 21, 2007

  • Not to mention, Maxwell Smart's foxy sidekick.

    March 22, 2007