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eighty-six
[ey-tee-siks]
noun
a cardinal number, 80 plus 6.
a symbol for this number, as 86 or LXXXVI.
a set of this many persons or things.
Slang.a customer considered undesirable or unwelcome and refused service at a bar or restaurant.
adjective
amounting to 86 in number.
Slang.sold out; out of stock.
verb (used with object)
to refuse to serve (an undesirable or unwelcome customer) at a bar or restaurant.
to reject; discard.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of eighty-six1
Example Sentences
“One hundred and eighty-six. That’s even more orbs than you had before.”
Between eighty-six and ninety-four steps to the corner where the crossing guard, Ms. Post, stands.
The hedge fund that had bought the company had already tried to eighty-six Freds’ rosy sautéed chicken livers over sourdough toast, proving once again that money can’t buy taste.
That totaled eighty-six cents, for lunch and dinner.
"Car number four cost eighty-six pounds—a real wreck that was—and sold for six hundred and ninety-nine pounds fifty."
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