variants or less commonly ten-eighty
: a poisonous preparation of sodium fluoroacetate used as a rodenticide and pesticide

Word History

Etymology

from its laboratory serial number

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of 1080 was in 1945

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Cite this Entry

“1080.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/1080. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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