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Dictionary: eight·y-six or 86 (ā'tē-sĭks')
 
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tr.v. Slang., eight·y-sixed or 86·ed, eight·y-six·ing or 86·ing, eight·y-six·es or 86·es.
  1. To refuse to serve (an unwelcome customer) at a bar or restaurant.
    1. To throw out; eject.
    2. To throw away; discard.

[Perhaps after Chumley's bar and restaurant at 86 Bedford Street in Greenwich Village, New York City.]


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Food Lover's Companion: 86
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Restaurant slang for being out of a menu item, such as "86 the lamp chops."

 
Marine Corps Dictionary: 86
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To throw away or get rid of something. From the number of the form originally used to remove an item from a stock record.

 
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Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century
Decades: 50s  60s  70s  - 80s -  90s  100s  110s
Years: 83 84 85 - 86 - 87 88 89
This article is about the year 86. For other uses, see 86 (number).
For the processor, see Intel 8086.
86 by topic
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Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
86 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 86
LXXXVI
Ab urbe condita 839
Armenian calendar N/A
Bahá'í calendar -1758 – -1757
Berber calendar 1036
Buddhist calendar 630
Burmese calendar -552
Byzantine calendar 5594 – 5595
Chinese calendar 乙酉年十一月廿八日
(2722/2782-11-28)
— to —
丙戌年十一月初八日
(2723/2783-11-8)
Coptic calendar -198 – -197
Ethiopian calendar 78 – 79
Hebrew calendar 3846 – 3847
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 141 – 142
 - Shaka Samvat 8 – 9
 - Kali Yuga 3187 – 3188
Holocene calendar 10086
Iranian calendar 536 BP – 535 BP
Islamic calendar 552 BH – 551 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 2419
Thai solar calendar 629
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Year 86 (LXXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

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Roman Empire

  • Domitian introduces the Capitoline Games.
  • The Roman General Trajan, future emperor, begins a campaign to crush an uprising in Germany.
  • Germany is divided into two provinces, Upper- and Lower-Germany.
  • Roman legions face disaster in Dacia in the First Battle of Tapae, when Cornelius Fuscus, Praetorian prefect, launches a powerful offensive that becomes a failure. Encircled in the valley of Timi, he dies along with his entire army. Rome must pay tribute to the Dacians in exchange for a vague recognition of Rome's importance.

Asia

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Deaths


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