Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To refuse to serve (an unwelcome customer) at a bar or restaurant.
- transitive verb To throw out; eject.
- transitive verb To throw away; discard.
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- noun The
cardinal number immediately followingeighty-five and precedingeighty-seven . - verb colloquial To cancel an order for food.
- verb colloquial To remove an item from the menu.
- verb colloquial To
remove oreject , as a disruptive customer - verb colloquial To throw out; discard.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being six more than eighty
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Brown corduroy, the earflaps tied on top, the same size cap he bought when he was young, but at eighty-six
New Cap 2010
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With the publication of White House Diary, Carter, who will be eighty-six on October 1, clearly hopes to move up on the charts.
Glenn C. Altschuler: Jimmy Carter's Last Campaign Glenn C. Altschuler 2010
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Today dad is eighty-six years old, and spends most of his day trying to read the newspaper and understanding it.
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Brown corduroy, the earflaps tied on top, the same size cap he bought when he was young, but at eighty-six
Lance Mannion: 2010
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Lima, now eighty-six, described the incident during an interview at his home in East Providence this summer.
GEORGE S LIMA 2010
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Hennie Comfort is eighty-six and has lived in the mountains of Middle Swan, Colorado since before it was Colorado.
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I wish I could have gone but, honestly, at eighty-six that man wears me out.
ALA aftermath Roger Sutton 2009
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The completed design uses eighty-six containers of various sizes that were retrofitted into bedrooms and bolted together onsite.
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I wish I could have gone but, honestly, at eighty-six that man wears me out.
Archive 2009-07-01 Roger Sutton 2009
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In 2006 some eighty-six evangelical leaders signed a statement saying, "Millions of people could die in this century because of climate change, most of them our poorest global neighbors."
Victor Stenger: Global Warming and Religion Victor Stenger 2011
asativum commented on the word eighty-six
(v.) To nix or deep-six something.
January 17, 2008