"m8" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "m8s",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "m8's",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "m8's"
      },
      "expansion": "m8 (plural m8s or m8's)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "mate"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000 January 6, \"Stuka_JV44\", “Re: Will the new semi-historical event let me play???”, in microsoft.public.games.zone.fighterace (Usenet)",
          "text": "I appreciate your attempt at help and hope the problem can be fixed so I can continue to enjoy this game and fly with my m8's, both JV44 as well as everyone else.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 April 18, \"DVD2\", “Have I killed my m8's Tosh ?”, in uk.comp.sys.laptops (Usenet)",
          "text": "Scratching my head a bit now and my m8 will be round tomorrow evening !!!!!!!!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003 March 15, \"Loop\", “ATTN:RHFULLER YOUR WRONG M8”, in alt.ftpsearch.com (Usenet)",
          "text": "Sorry m8 your rong, what up have i given out a service for free ?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Aidan Macfarlane, Ann McPherson, quoting an anonymous 13 year old girl, Bullying: the truth, page 22",
          "text": "I’m really scared I was wiv my m8s n dis grl cam up strtd mouthin off n punched 2 ov em I fink I wll b nxt n im scared 1 of d grls in d grup goes 2 our skul she as dun nuffin.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Chris Pawson, Eike Adams, Ralph Tanner., quoting \"NB\", “Cyberspace: A Contemporary Social Space”, in Karen Malone, editor, Child Space: An Anthropological Exploration Of Young People's Use Of Space, page 259",
          "text": "I'm not their m8s and I feel great cos im free to talk to ne1 else well I was b4 but it feels real gd!!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 March 13, \"Redman\", “Re:OT:Long Shot, Looking 4”, in alt.warez.uk (Usenet)",
          "text": "Tried that last night with my m8's chipped xbox, played the track, did the hotswap thing and I read you should get an error 21 if memory serves me correctly but it just froze.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Abbreviation of mate."
      ],
      "id": "en-m8-en-noun-VgwqIf53",
      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "text messaging",
          "text messaging"
        ],
        [
          "mate",
          "mate#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of mate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet",
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "m8"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "m8s",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "m8's",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "m8's"
      },
      "expansion": "m8 (plural m8s or m8's)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "mate"
        }
      ],
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        "English abbreviations",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English internet slang",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms spelled with numbers",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English text messaging slang",
        "English words without vowels"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000 January 6, \"Stuka_JV44\", “Re: Will the new semi-historical event let me play???”, in microsoft.public.games.zone.fighterace (Usenet)",
          "text": "I appreciate your attempt at help and hope the problem can be fixed so I can continue to enjoy this game and fly with my m8's, both JV44 as well as everyone else.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 April 18, \"DVD2\", “Have I killed my m8's Tosh ?”, in uk.comp.sys.laptops (Usenet)",
          "text": "Scratching my head a bit now and my m8 will be round tomorrow evening !!!!!!!!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003 March 15, \"Loop\", “ATTN:RHFULLER YOUR WRONG M8”, in alt.ftpsearch.com (Usenet)",
          "text": "Sorry m8 your rong, what up have i given out a service for free ?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Aidan Macfarlane, Ann McPherson, quoting an anonymous 13 year old girl, Bullying: the truth, page 22",
          "text": "I’m really scared I was wiv my m8s n dis grl cam up strtd mouthin off n punched 2 ov em I fink I wll b nxt n im scared 1 of d grls in d grup goes 2 our skul she as dun nuffin.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Chris Pawson, Eike Adams, Ralph Tanner., quoting \"NB\", “Cyberspace: A Contemporary Social Space”, in Karen Malone, editor, Child Space: An Anthropological Exploration Of Young People's Use Of Space, page 259",
          "text": "I'm not their m8s and I feel great cos im free to talk to ne1 else well I was b4 but it feels real gd!!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 March 13, \"Redman\", “Re:OT:Long Shot, Looking 4”, in alt.warez.uk (Usenet)",
          "text": "Tried that last night with my m8's chipped xbox, played the track, did the hotswap thing and I read you should get an error 21 if memory serves me correctly but it just froze.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Abbreviation of mate."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "text messaging",
          "text messaging"
        ],
        [
          "mate",
          "mate#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of mate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet",
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "m8"
}