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eighty-six U.S. slang.
[See eighty a. (n.); perh. rhyming slang for nix1 1.]
In restaurants and bars, an expression indicating that the supply of an item is exhausted, or that a customer is not to be served; also, a customer to be refused service. Also transf.
1936Amer. Speech XI. 43/1 Eighty-six, item on the menu not on hand. 1941J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 58, 86, sold out. 1944G. Fowler Good Night, Sweet Prince iii. i. 227 There was a bar in the Belasco building,..but Barrymore was known in that cubby as an ‘eighty-six’. An ‘eighty-six’, in the patois of western dispensers, means: ‘Don't serve him.’ 1971P. Tamony Americanisms (typescript) No. 28. 16 Eighty-six. Bar and restaurant usage, ‘nix’, i.e., customer has had enough to drink or house is out of comestible ordered. Basically, simple rhyming slang but among habitues has as many [e]tymons as Homer had home-places, such probably being boozed up ex cathedra. 1977Washington Post 17 May b1/5, 86 means you're all out of something or you cut some guy off. 1981W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 15 Mar. 10/2 Eighty-six on etymologies for ‘cocktail’.
Hence as v. trans., to eject or debar (a person) from premises; to reject or abandon.
1959Observer 1 Nov. 7/6 ‘Eighty-sixed some square bankers from the temple’..eighty-sixed means evicted. 1963J. Rechy City of Night ii. 186 I'll have you eighty-sixed out of this bar. 1968N.Y. Times 31 July 29 On the evening of July 22, Mr. Mailer was filming a dream sequence at the house of Alfonso Ossorio in East Hampton, when Mr. Smith came into the house. ‘He told me, ‘You're 86'd’,’ Mr. Smith recalled yesterday. This is a barroom phrase that means ‘you're banned in here’. 1980New Yorker 30 June 67 Most of the program was devoted to the lessons in campaign management that could be learned from Presidential races, real and fictional (A scene was shown from the movie ‘The Candidate’, in which the media adviser said to Robert Redford, ‘O.K., now, for starters, we got to cut your hair and eighty-six the sideburns’). |