eighty

86 (someone or something)

1. To eject someone from an establishment without serving them. The boss hates this guy and wants us to 86 him.
2. To cancel or stop something. Why would they 86 the plans for renovations? The building is practically falling apart.
3. To dispose of something. Ugh, can we please 86 the coleslaw? Just looking at it is making me nauseous.
See also: 86

do a 180

1. Literally, to begin moving in the opposite direction. (If one physically turns 180 degrees, one will then be facing the opposite direction.) I was going to go to the park, but when I saw those dark clouds roll in, I did a 180 and headed back home.
2. To make a big change in one's position, opinion, lifestyle, etc. A: "Can you believe that Sam quit his job at the firm?" B: "No, he really did a 180 on being a paralegal!"
See also: 180

do an about-face

To suddenly and completely turn or change one's direction. This phrase can describe one's physical movement or a change in concept. She did an about-face and walked back up the steps once she saw that the subway wasn't running. Based on the reactions we got from test audiences, we need to do an about-face with the movie's plot.

the eighty-eight

slang The piano. A reference to the eighty-eight keys of a piano. Tom got up and played an amazing tune on the eighty-eight. It was a classy place. The waiters were all in tuxedos and there was a woman in the corner playing on the eighty-eight the whole evening.

turn 180 degrees

1. Literally, to turn and face the opposite direction. I was going to go to the park, but when I saw those dark clouds roll in, I turned 180 degrees and headed back home.
2. To make a big change in one's position, opinion, lifestyle, etc. A: "Can you believe that Sam quit his job at the firm?" B: "No, he really turned 180 degrees on being a paralegal!"
See also: 180, degree, turn
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

do a one-eighty

 and turn one hundred and eighty degrees 
1. Lit. to turn around and go in the opposite direction. When I hollered, the dog did a one-eighty and headed back to its own yard.
2. Fig. to radically reverse a decision or opinion. His political philosophy turned one hundred and eighty degrees when he grew a little older.

eighty-six something

Sl. to throw something away. Let's eighty-six this stew and go out and get some decent pizza.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

do an about-face

Also, do a flip-flop or one-eighty . Reverse one's opinion or course of action. For example, The board did an about-face on acquiring more land, or We expected Dad to do a flip-flop concerning our vacation plans, or They had relied on Jim to vote for Harry, but he did a one-eighty and cast his vote for the incumbent . The first term, alluding to the army command to turn around, dates from the first half of the 1900s, and the variants from the second half of the 1900s (the last refers to a 180-degree change of direction).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

the eighty-eight

n. a piano. (Pianos have eighty-eight keys.) Sam can really beat the eighty-eight.

eighty-six

and 86
tv. to dispose of someone or something; to nix someone or something. He wants $400? Eighty-six that! We can’t afford it.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • 86
  • 86 (someone or something)
  • eighty-six
  • eject
  • eject from
  • eject from (something)
  • cancel (one's) Christmas
  • cancel Christmas
  • cancel someone’s Christmas
  • turn (someone or something) out of (something or some place)
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Looking over my shoulder, Pooh says: 'Eighty is a good number really but it could just as well be eighty weeks or days or minutes as years,' and I say: 'Let's call it eighty seconds, and then it'll be as though no time has passed at all.'
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SEXTILLION ([10.sup.21]) = Seventy - Eighty + X + [Thousand.sup.(-I-[{L/L}{I/One}] + Nine)]
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Eighty percent of humanity lives in developing countries.
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"At eighty, I think I'm entitled to change direction and leave behind the perpetual struggles of gathering boards, finding money, just surviving." Although Lewitzky's company operated in the black for the past three seasons, the effort and energy required to maintain that status were burdensome.
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Eighty percent of executives reported that their company abstracted lease attributes into a lease administration database.
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Organized by the eighty-four-year-old artist himself in collaboration with Nikolaj director Elisabeth Delin Hansen, the exhibition comprises approximately eighty works spanning six decades.
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De-affirmation tapes that warned, "You're going to have to play catcher on your softball team until you're eighty"?
Scaring them straight
Nineteen eighty was not just any year for Cranston--it was an election year.
Move over, Charles Keating
More than eighty individuals and companies expressed serious interest in the parcel and over thirty buyers submitted offers.
Developer lands Bronx' biggest parcel for $11m
In his recent exhibition, "Inverse," he presented three acrylic canvases, each eighty by eighty inches, whose origins lie in British photographer John Deakin's portraits (made in the '50s) of three friends: journalist Rayner Heppenstall, poet Oliver Bernard, and publisher and bookseller David Archer.
FRANK EGLOFF