eighty-six
Meaning
Verb
- To cancel an order for food.
- To remove an item from the menu.
- To remove or eject, as a disruptive customer.
- To throw out; discard.
Related
Similar words
Origin
- eighty + six
- Unknown for certain. Possibly rhyming slang for nix (given by the OED), or possibly part of a code of such numbers created in the 1920s. See also: Wikipedia:86 (term)
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