{"senses": [{"examples": [{"text": "I have to go now, because the same radio station is holding a talk on the Mike Warnke db8 that I don't want to miss.", "ref": "1992 August 6, Jeanne Allan Sawtelle, “Matthew Ward Song/Album request”, in rec.music.christian (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jul 2026:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[86, 89]]}, {"text": "the team who sucks, doesn't know any db8 theory, doesn't know how to argue t, kritiks, etc. etc. would have an advantage because they don't need to adapt..[.] their slow and stupid rhetoric is the same language as the judge's...", "ref": "1997 January 25, Tony Makridis, “the new topic(C-X), bad judges, help”, in alt.speech.debate (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jul 2026:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[37, 40]]}, {"text": "while i agree w/ those points, 4 the sake of db8: […] No impact to a boring debate - my favorite db8s are t debates, same 4 many others", "ref": "1997 March 18, Tony Makridis, “TOPICALITY DISCUSSION...WRITE ME”, in alt.speech.debate (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jul 2026:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[45, 48], [97, 100], [97, 101]]}, {"text": "anyone here know anything about the UT Austin db8 camp?", "ref": "1998 March 10, Zain, “UT Debate camp”, in alt.speech.debate (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jul 2026:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[46, 49]]}, {"text": "-phil / pinole valley db8", "ref": "1998 March 25, Kremarc, “DEBATE TEAM ETHICS”, in alt.speech.debate (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jul 2026:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[22, 25]]}, {"text": "-Jules De Gaultier / Ashland db8 4ever...", "ref": "1998 May 24, Joker, “UT Texas”, in alt.speech.debate (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jul 2026:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[29, 32]]}, {"text": "The Debater's Evidence Exchange http://members.tripod.com/~genniferr/db8.html", "ref": "1998 December 26, Jennifer Roberts, “NEW Debate Webpage”, in alt.speech.debate (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jul 2026:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[69, 72]]}, {"text": "what are you the db8 historian? you just suck and want to believe that your \"traditional\" way of debate is better because it makes you feel good. db8 is just like everything else, it changes.", "ref": "1998 December 29, [drh] <meanmrmustard@my-dejanews.com>, “New in the 2NC”, in alt.speech.debate (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jul 2026:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[17, 20], [146, 149]]}, {"ref": "1999 February 21, Cloud ZERO, “Policy Db8 Camps”, in alt.speech.debate (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jul 2026", "type": "quotation"}, {"text": "Hey I am from Meridian[,] Idaho - and I was wondering is your coach just plain psycho? We went to state db8 and she was weird?? What[’]s up?", "ref": "1999 March 27, <bbeeler@my-dejanews.com>, “BLACK IMMERSION SCHOOLS”, in alt.speech.debate (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jul 2026:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[104, 107]]}, {"ref": "2008, David Crystal, Txtng: the Gr8 Db8, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN", "type": "quotation"}], "categories": ["English abbreviations", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English links with manual fragments", "English nouns", "English number homophones", "English terms spelled with numbers", "English terms with quotations", "English terms with rare senses", "English text messaging slang", "English uncountable nouns", "English words spelled without vowels", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries"], "links": [["text messaging", "text messaging"], ["debate", "debate#Noun"]], "raw_glosses": ["(text messaging, rare) Abbreviation of debate."], "glosses": ["Abbreviation of debate."], "tags": ["Internet", "abbreviation", "alt-of", "countable", "rare", "uncountable"], "alt_of": [{"word": "debate"}]}], "pos": "noun", "head_templates": [{"name": "en-noun", "args": {"1": "~"}, "expansion": "db8 (countable and uncountable, plural db8s)"}], "forms": [{"form": "db8s", "tags": ["plural"]}], "word": "db8", "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en"}