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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.
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.