eighty-sixn.

Etymology: See eighty adj. (and n.); perhaps rhyming slang for nix n.¹

U.S. slang.

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 transferred.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > expression showing service is not possible

eighty-six1936

1936 Amer. Speech 11 43/1 Eighty-six, item on the menu not on hand.

1941 J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 58 86, sold out.

1944 G. 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.’

1971 P. 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.

1977 Washington Post 17 May b1/5 86 means you're all out of something or you cut some guy off.

1981 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 15 Mar. 10/2 Eighty-six on etymologies for “cocktail”.

Derivatives

eighty-six v. transitive, to eject or debar (a person) from premises; to reject or abandon.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > reject

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to throw awaya1382

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no-ball1862

basket1867

to set one's foot down1873

not to have any (of it, that, this)1895

to put down1944

eighty-six1959

neg1987

society > authority > subjection > prohibition > prohibit [verb (transitive)] > debar (a person) > from a place

to shut outc1384

to shut (some one) out of doors, out of the gates1508

eighty-six1959

1959 Observer 1 Nov. 7/6 ‘Eighty-sixed some square bankers from the temple’..eighty-sixed means evicted.

1963 J. Rechy City of Night ii. 186 I'll have you eighty-sixed out of this bar.

1968 N.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’.

1980 New 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’).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	eighty-six
释义	eighty-sixn. Etymology: See eighty adj. (and n.); perhaps rhyming slang for nix n.¹ U.S. slang. 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 transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > expression showing service is not possible eighty-six1936 1936 Amer. Speech 11 43/1 Eighty-six, item on the menu not on hand. 1941 J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 58 86, sold out. 1944 G. 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.’ 1971 P. 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. 1977 Washington Post 17 May b1/5 86 means you're all out of something or you cut some guy off. 1981 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 15 Mar. 10/2 Eighty-six on etymologies for “cocktail”. Derivatives eighty-six v. transitive, to eject or debar (a person) from premises; to reject or abandon. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > reject awarpc1000 forwerpeOE warpc1000 nillOE warnc1300 reprovec1350 to put abacka1382 to throw awaya1382 repugnc1384 to put awaya1387 waivec1386 forshoota1400 disavowc1400 defyc1405 disprovec1430 repelc1443 flemea1450 to put backa1500 reject?1504 refutea1513 repulse1533 refel1548 repudiate1548 disallowa1555 project?1567 expel1575 discard1578 overrule1578 forsay1579 check1601 decard1605 dismiss1608 reprobate1609 devow1610 retorta1616 disclaimc1626 noforsootha1644 respuate1657 reluctate1668 negative1778 no-ball1862 basket1867 to set one's foot down1873 not to have any (of it, that, this)1895 to put down1944 eighty-six1959 neg1987 society > authority > subjection > prohibition > prohibit [verb (transitive)] > debar (a person) > from a place to shut outc1384 to shut (some one) out of doors, out of the gates1508 eighty-six1959 1959 Observer 1 Nov. 7/6 ‘Eighty-sixed some square bankers from the temple’..eighty-sixed means evicted. 1963 J. Rechy City of Night ii. 186 I'll have you eighty-sixed out of this bar. 1968 N.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’. 1980 New 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’). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1936
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