Synonyms for eighty-six

Grammar : Verb

Spell : ey-tee-siks

Phonetic Transcription : ˈeɪ tiˈsɪks

Définition of eighty-six

Origin : slang for "eliminate," 1936, originated at lunch counters, a cook's word for "none" when asked for something not available, probably rhyming slang for nix.

verb get rid of

Example sentences :

One hundred and eighty-six men, mounted, from the Monongahela settlements.
Extract from : « Chronicles of Border Warfare » by Alexander Scott Withers

The number is five hundred and eighty-six and I think we shall do better than that.
Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln

There was an uncle of my own was in a passion for forty years, and he died at eighty-six.'
Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever

Their length was one hundred and eighty-six and their breadth twenty-four feet.
Extract from : « Danger! and Other Stories » by Arthur Conan Doyle

Those present numbered eighty-six, Stephen learned from the count.
Extract from : « The Loyalist » by James Francis Barrett

Their loss in the attack was thirty-four killed and eighty-six wounded.
Extract from : « The Naval History of the United States » by Willis J. Abbot.

Mr. Parnell will have eighty-six followers in the new Parliament.
Extract from : « Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 » by Various

Foreign ministers we have had eighty-six, and they but fifty-four.
Extract from : « The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 » by Various

On each portion of that size eighty-six families were to be planted.
Extract from : « Sir Walter Ralegh » by William Stebbing

"Four dollars and eighty-six cents," she replied, recovering herself.
Extract from : « T. Tembarom » by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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