eighty-six adj.
1. (US) unwelcome, esp. as at a bar.
[ | On Broadway 24 May [synd. col.] A Hollywood soda-jerker forwards this glossary of soda-fountain lingo out there… ‘Shoot one’ and ‘draw one’ is one coke and one coffee… [...] ‘Eighty-six’ means all out of it]. | |
Wash. Post 5 Apr. TC1/5: ‘Eighty-six means out,’ I said. ‘“The tuna-fish salad is 86” means there isn’t any more. And if you say a guy is 86, that means he’s fired or all washed up or something like that.’. | ||
Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 85: Even if Carver did street him, Bear would be eighty-six all over town. | ||
Patriot Game (1985) 200: The boss was even gonna throw you out, permanent eighty-six, you didn’t stop doin’ this. |
2. (US) dead.
Suicide Hill 254: ‘If this joker Klein is eighty-six, how you gonna make him for the heists?’. |