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–noun
1.a cardinal number, 80 plus 6.
2.a symbol for this number, as 86 or LXXXVI.
3.a set of this many persons or things.
4.Slang. a customer considered undesirable or unwelcome and refused service at a bar or restaurant.
–adjective
5.amounting to 86 in number.
6.Slang. sold out; out of stock.
–verb (used with object)Slang.
7.to refuse to serve (an undesirable or unwelcome customer) at a bar or restaurant.
8.to reject; discard.
World Wide Words: Eighty-six
It seems to mean either that the restaurant is out of something (‘we’re eighty-six on flounder’) or, less often, that a thing should be gotten rid of (‘eighty-six that … it was borrowed from a version of the German nichts, nothing. But it seems that eighty-six was created as rhyming slang in the United States.
ksoskins over 14 years ago
What would you expect, Al, at Cafe 86 they’re always out of everything.
grapfhics over 14 years ago
cause it’s been 86’d?
cdward over 14 years ago
grapfhics, you beat me to it.
shmlss over 14 years ago
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA………………….
McGehee over 14 years ago
And it’s been 24 years since their last food shipment.
ottod Premium Member over 14 years ago
On the plus side, they’ve never had a bad review of their food.
jtviper7 over 14 years ago
I’m thinking of a number a little less…Ying & Yang.
Sherlock Watson over 14 years ago
Their biggest competitor was Cafe No. 2, until it got shut down for health reasons.
Bargrove over 14 years ago
Where did that come from?
rainman5353 over 14 years ago
Get a different dictionary, Joe. There is no permanence to being 86ed.
rainman5353 over 14 years ago
–noun 1.a cardinal number, 80 plus 6. 2.a symbol for this number, as 86 or LXXXVI. 3.a set of this many persons or things. 4.Slang. a customer considered undesirable or unwelcome and refused service at a bar or restaurant. –adjective 5.amounting to 86 in number. 6.Slang. sold out; out of stock. –verb (used with object)Slang. 7.to refuse to serve (an undesirable or unwelcome customer) at a bar or restaurant. 8.to reject; discard.
rainman5353 over 14 years ago
In restaraunt jargon:
World Wide Words: Eighty-six It seems to mean either that the restaurant is out of something (‘we’re eighty-six on flounder’) or, less often, that a thing should be gotten rid of (‘eighty-six that … it was borrowed from a version of the German nichts, nothing. But it seems that eighty-six was created as rhyming slang in the United States.