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
- 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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