eighty-six

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
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

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.

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
  • eject
  • eject from
  • eject from (something)
  • cancel (one's) Christmas
  • cancel Christmas
  • cancel someone’s Christmas
  • turnout
References in periodicals archive
Berlin : Eighty-six camels perished as a ferocious fire swept through their farm in southern Germany earlier on Thursday, causing nearly one million euros ($1.36 million) damage, police said.
It is good to have this collection back in print after eighty-six years in a readable, inexpensive edition with an informative introduction and a good, slightly expanded index.
Eighty-six percent of stock market gains between 1989 and 1997 flowed to the top 10 percent of U.S.
Lorenz Jr., CCD, founder of Gnaw Bone Camp in Nashville, Indiana, died in December at the age of eighty-six. For twenty-five years, he taught industrial arts at the Orchard School in Indianapolis.
Last year's festival, the first under the sole artistic direction of Melillo, saw an average attendance rate of eighty-six percent capacity, with three productions drawing sellout crowds.
Eighty-six of the studio apartments will be available for people requiring low levels of care, but there will be 40 special-care units specifically designed for people with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia.
"Eighty-six' is hash-house slang for the act of cancellation and prohibition.
The spokesman said the entitled families will get free health facilities at eighty-six hospitals of the province including twenty-seven public and fifty-nine private hospitals.
A spokesman of FATA Secretariat told Radio Pakistan Peshawar correspondent that the government has so far spent an amount of eighty-six billion rupees on different development projects in tribal areas.
Ten feet high and eighty-six feet wide, it covered four walls when it first went on view, at the uptown Castelli Gallery.
Eighty-six percent of religious school students admitted lying to teachers; 81 percent of students in public and non-religious private schools said they had lied.
Robert Chorley died in June at the age of eighty-six. He was a member of the Illinois section and had been a standards visitor.
Eighty-six years after the RMS Titanic scraped against an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, researchers are still trying to unravel the mystery of what happened on that fateful night.
On completion, the canal will bring two lakh and eighty-six thousand acres of barren land under cultivation in Dera Ismail Khan and Tank districts.