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What is eighty-sixed?To eighty-six something or someone originates in a small bar in the village. Chumley's, a prohibition era haunt for writers and artists, had two entrances: one of which was on 86 Bedford street. When the bar got raided by cops everyone would rush out of the back door on 86 Bedford. Shit! The cops! Let's eighty-six it! eighty-sixed - meme gifeighty-sixed - videoEighty-sixed - what is it?To delete. Orginated in the 1980's when restaurants started using POS(point of sale) software. The number 86 was used to delete incorrect or changed orders. Now, 86 has taken on its own life. "you need to eighty-six your girlfriend" in other words "get ride of her" What does "eighty-sixed" mean?To end something; specifically to dump a boyfriend/girlfriend or stop seeing someone. Still going out with Leslie? No, I eighty-sixed her a couple weeks ago. Eighty-sixed - what does it mean?To get barred or trespassed from an establishment (e.g., a casino). The pit boss caught John back counting at the $100 minimum blackjack table, so they took him to the front door and eighty-sixed him. Eighty-sixed - meaningverb- To kill, knock off, eradicate All we gotta do is eighty-six that bitch judge, and we're straight. Eighty-sixed - definitionto throw out or to take away or to deny He eighty-sixed my fake id at the bar. Eighty-sixed - slangto dispose of someone or something, to get rid of someone or something Let's eighty-six this punk's ass. Eighty-sixedto eighty-six a pregnancy is to medically terminate it, taken from the name of the "abortion drug" RU-486. Jenny: I just came up positive on this pregnancy test. It was just a one night stand. I'm gonna eighty-six it. Eighty-sixedRestaurant lingo meaning "take an item off the menu." By extension it can also mean to get rid of almost anything (including doing away with somebody). The Urbandictionary entry attributing the term to the 1980s is erroneous. I worked as a short order cook in the late 1960s and it was in use in a half dozen NewYork city joints where I worked. Oldtimers say the term was around in the 1940s and that the derivation is Article 86 of the New York Liquor Code which describes the circumstances under which liquor should be withheld from a customer. Restaurant manager: "we ran out of chipped beef . . . eighty-six the shit on a shingle." Eighty-sixedTraditionally, to be eighty-sixed was to be cut off from further booze service. This term comes all the way from the wild west (and not the 1980's as previously defined), where a bartender would only serve the 86 proof whiskey to customers already too drunk (86 proof was reserved for the ladies. The wild west was tough). I went to the bar at happy hour and was eighty-sixed by the bartender by 9:00. |
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