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单词 eighty-six
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Definition of eighty-six in English:

eighty-six

(also 86)
verb
[with object]North American informal
  • 1Eject or bar (someone) from a restaurant, bar, etc.

    they were accused of cheating, and eighty-sixed from their favourite casino
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She wore a wedding dress just for the hell of it and danced and flirted and cussed in French Quarter barrooms until she was eighty-sixed, which was often.
    • Shortly after the guidebook was published in April, he found himself trashed (by a rival guide) in the local paper, eighty-sixed from a local cantina, and called a ‘hillbilly creep’ via e-mail.
    • We have 86ed him before for those reasons, so I think it would probably be smarter for us to avoid future incidents.
  • 2Reject, discard, or cancel.

    the passwords will be 86ed by next October
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As is everything, which makes the bustling lunch rush a better bet than dinner, when lower turnover can result in dry rice, reheated kafta, or - sorrow of sorrows - an eighty-sixed chicken shawarma.
    • Brian continues to try to eighty-six Michael's practically perfect boyfriend but finds the good doctor can give as good as he gets.
    • She started buying bottled organic milk from a local dairy and eighty-sixed her ‘noxious toilet-bowl cleaner’.
    • I don't think that eighty-sixing him from the movie was the right thing to do at all.

Origin

1930s (as a noun, used in restaurants and bars to indicate that a menu item is unavailable or that a customer is not to be served): perhaps rhyming slang for nix1.

Definition of eighty-six in US English:

eighty-six

(also 86)
verbˌādēˈsiksˌeɪdiˈsɪks
[with object]North American informal
  • 1Eject or bar (someone) from a restaurant, bar, etc.

    they were accused of cheating, and eighty-sixed from their favorite casino
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She wore a wedding dress just for the hell of it and danced and flirted and cussed in French Quarter barrooms until she was eighty-sixed, which was often.
    • Shortly after the guidebook was published in April, he found himself trashed (by a rival guide) in the local paper, eighty-sixed from a local cantina, and called a ‘hillbilly creep’ via e-mail.
    • We have 86ed him before for those reasons, so I think it would probably be smarter for us to avoid future incidents.
  • 2Reject, discard, or cancel.

    the passwords will be 86ed by next October
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I don't think that eighty-sixing him from the movie was the right thing to do at all.
    • Brian continues to try to eighty-six Michael's practically perfect boyfriend but finds the good doctor can give as good as he gets.
    • She started buying bottled organic milk from a local dairy and eighty-sixed her ‘noxious toilet-bowl cleaner’.
    • As is everything, which makes the bustling lunch rush a better bet than dinner, when lower turnover can result in dry rice, reheated kafta, or - sorrow of sorrows - an eighty-sixed chicken shawarma.

Origin

1930s (as a noun, used in restaurants and bars to indicate that a menu item is unavailable or that a customer is not to be served): perhaps rhyming slang for nix.

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