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Dictionary: eight·y-six or 86 (ā'tē-sĭks')
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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(AY-tee SIKS)
verb tr., also 86

1. To throw out; discard; reject.

2. To refuse to serve (a customer).
adjective
Sold-out (of an item).
noun
An undesirable customer, one who is denied service.

[Perhaps rhyming slang for nix.]

Usage:

"He says the show will go on next month, though scheduling conflicts may move it to another hotel and the band may be eighty-sixed." — Zan Dubin; Clubs in and Around Orange County; The Los Angeles Times; Jun 19, 1997.

"David enlists the help of his friend Richard Lewis to buy a bracelet for his wife from a jewelry store that 86ed him." — Melanie McFarland; `Curb' Built on `Seinfeld' Legacy; The Seattle Times; Oct 13, 2000.



Restaurant slang for being out of a menu item, such as "86 the lamp chops."

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 BC1st century2nd century
Decades: 50s  60s  70s  – 80s –  90s  100s  110s
Years: 83 84 858687 88 89
86 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
BirthsDeaths
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

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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