last eight

last eight (plural last eights)

1. (sports) A quarterfinal; the players in a quarterfinal
   • 2011 June 27, “Wimbledon 2011: Bernard Tomic extends dream run”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Australian qualifier Bernard Tomic reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals by beating Belgium's Xavier Malisse 6-1 7-5 6-4 in the fourth round. The German-born 18-year-old is the first qualifier to reach the last eight since Vladimir Voltchkov in 2000.

• last four
• last sixteen

• alightest, set alight, tea lights, tea-lights, tealights