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(humorous) The number , 11 × 10.

Compounds with other numerals: eleventy'''-one'' (= 111), '''''eleventy'''-six'' (= 116), '''''eleventy -first'' (= one-hundred and eleventh), ''etc.

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, title=The Fellowship of the Ring , author=JRR Tolkien , page=43, 54 , year=1955 (1974) , passage=[Bilbo] announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first' birthday

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, title=State and Interstate Fishery Jurisdiction: Problems and Progress : Proceedings of a Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1979 : October 29-31, 1979 , author=Janet Caudle , page=149 , year=1980 , passage=without having to go back through the thousand and eleventy-three days to alter the plan }}

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, title=Networking for Dummies , author=Doug Lowe , page=174 , year=2007 , passage=Eight-Oh-Two-Dot-Eleventy Something [= 802.11a, 802.11b, etc. ]}}

(colloquial) An indefinite large number.

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, title=The Atlantic Monthly , chapter=A Little Boy's Utopia , author=Margaret Wilson , page=670 , year=May 1921 , passage=No grown-up people, no babies, no girls. It was a world of boys, eleventy and a hundred strong. }}

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, title=Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals , author=Robert M Sapolsky , page=19 , year=2005 , passage=People used to think that the first eleventy letters of the DNA message would comprise Gene 1. }}

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