eighty-six

[ ey-tee-siks ]

/ ˈeɪ tiˈsɪks /

a cardinal number, 80 plus 6.

a symbol for this number, as 86 or LXXXVI.

a set of this many persons or things.

Slang. a customer considered undesirable or unwelcome and refused service at a bar or restaurant.

amounting to 86 in number.

Slang. sold out; out of stock.

to refuse to serve (an undesirable or unwelcome customer) at a bar or restaurant.

to reject; discard.

Origin of eighty-six

1960–65, for def 7; sense “refuse” perhaps as rhyming slang for nix¹

I tell myself not to feel bad because my life expectancy is eighty-six, which means I have nineteen more years of life.

Diane Keaton Refuses to Give In to Aging |Diane Keaton |May 19, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Eighty-six percent of them had been catcalled on the street, and 36 percent said it happened daily.

Apps and Online Programs Offer New Ways to Report Street Harassment |Tessa Miller |April 2, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Eighty-six percent of stocks in the "Sold in the USA" portfolio offer juicy dividends, yielding on average 2.7 percent.

'Sold in the USA' Stocks Beating S&P 500 |CNBC |May 10, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Eighty-six people are dying each day from gun violence including eight children; and 3,000 people since Newtown.

Jim Wallis on the Common Good |Joshua DuBois |April 7, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

Eighty-six of the escapees were serving federal sentences or were awaiting trial for federal offences.

Convicts Hunted After Mexican Prison Break Near Border |Christine Pelisek |September 19, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Eighty-six years later came another 19th of April, also famous.

The Trial of Theodore Parker |Theodore Parker
The whole number, including non-commissioned officers and men, amounted to one thousand and eighty-six.

An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America |J. P. MacLean
But eighty-six years are a heavy load on the shoulders even of a giant.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. |Various
He is eighty-six years old, and his manners and appearance were dignified in the extreme.

The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) |John Morley
I have now before me a list of eighty-six assumptions of this sort in the Origin of Species alone.

Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith |Robert Patterson