Eighty-six

Etymology 1

 * eighty + six

Cardinal number
eighty-six


 * 1) The cardinal number immediately following eighty-five and preceding eighty-seven.

Synonyms

 * Hindu-Arabic numerals: 86
 * Roman numerals: LXXXVI

Translations

 * Arabic: ستة وثمانين (sítta w-θamaní:n)
 * Azeri: səksən altı
 * Basque: laurogeita sei
 * Catalan:
 * Valencian:
 * Dutch: zesentachtig
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: quatre-vingt-six
 * German: sechsundachtzig
 * Greek: ογδόντα έξ (ogdónda éx)
 * Hebrew: שמנים־וששה (šmoním və-šišá)


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 八十六 (hachi-jū-rokú)
 * Latin: octoginta sex
 * Polish: osiemdziesiąt sześć
 * Romanian: optzeci și șase
 * Russian: восемьдесят шесть (vósem’desjat šest’)
 * Sanskrit: ( s á d ashiiti)
 * Serbian: osamdeset i šest, osamdeset šest
 * Spanish: ochenta y seis
 * Turkish: seksen altı

Etymology 2
for certain. Possibly rhyming slang for nix: (given by the OED), or possibly part of a code of such numbers, created in the 1920s.

Verb

 * 1)  To cancel an order for food.
 * "eighty-six the ham and eggs for table two!"
 * 1)  To remove an item from the menu.
 * eighty-six the lobster bisque - we won't have the lobster delivery until tomorrow.
 * "Yes, I'd like the tomato soup." / "I'm sorry sir, that's been eighty-sixed - would you like a salad instead?"
 * 1)  To remove or eject, as a disruptive customer
 * Ryan and his friends got too rowdy at the bar, so they were eighty-sixed.
 * 1)  To throw out; discard.
 * "We finally had to eighty-six that old printer after it jammed one too many times."

Synonyms

 * nix
 * ixnay

Translations

 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: poistaa listalta


 * Finnish: heittää