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In reply to the discussion: Intellectual Honesty Test. Would you have been offended by "86-46" jargon thrown around a year ago? [View all]dpibel
(3,614 posts)47. What are the other dictionaries?
You've quoted Cassell's Dictionary of Slang and, far as I can tell, no other source.
Yet you now refer to "slang dictionaries" [emphasis supplied]. Did you just sort of ramp up your citation power there? Did you have any support for that?
Fun fact: check out The Online Slang Dictionary, which has overlooked this common, multiply sourced definition [not trying to vouch for the source, but it's a source...]:
Definition of 86
86
adjective
to be cut off from contact.
He's gonna be 86 if he doesn't call me back!
See more words with the same meaning: to reject, ignore.
Last edited on Nov 26 2010. Submitted by Britny S. from CA, USA on May 17 1999.
verb - transitive
to get rid of something.
She was cheating on me, so I had to 86 her.
My boyfriend 86ed me.
I need to 86 my job.
See more words with the same meaning: to discard.
Last edited on Nov 26 2010. Submitted by Eric D. from Watertown, MA, USA on May 07 2002.
to stop selling an item in a restaurant, because there is no more.
86 the lobster.
See more words with the same meaning: food and drink (related to).
Last edited on Nov 26 2010. Submitted by Anonymous from Charleston, WV, USA on Dec 03 2004.
to eject from a venue.
I was 86ed from the bar last night.
See more words with the same meaning: to restrict, forbid, eject.
Last edited on Nov 26 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Feb 05 2010.
86
adjective
to be cut off from contact.
He's gonna be 86 if he doesn't call me back!
See more words with the same meaning: to reject, ignore.
Last edited on Nov 26 2010. Submitted by Britny S. from CA, USA on May 17 1999.
verb - transitive
to get rid of something.
She was cheating on me, so I had to 86 her.
My boyfriend 86ed me.
I need to 86 my job.
See more words with the same meaning: to discard.
Last edited on Nov 26 2010. Submitted by Eric D. from Watertown, MA, USA on May 07 2002.
to stop selling an item in a restaurant, because there is no more.
86 the lobster.
See more words with the same meaning: food and drink (related to).
Last edited on Nov 26 2010. Submitted by Anonymous from Charleston, WV, USA on Dec 03 2004.
to eject from a venue.
I was 86ed from the bar last night.
See more words with the same meaning: to restrict, forbid, eject.
Last edited on Nov 26 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Feb 05 2010.
Based on the responses here (which, obviously, is a tiny number of people) your belief that everybody knows 86 means to kill is not firmly founded.
But it's fun to roil things up, isn't it?
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Intellectual Honesty Test. Would you have been offended by "86-46" jargon thrown around a year ago? [View all]
WarGamer
May 16
OP
So the fact that the majority of us in the modern era think it means to get sacked, canned, ...
Hekate
May 16
#15
Why do you highlight that part and not other, more prominent portions of the same page?
JHB
May 18
#110
I'm fine with it considering the say so many other worse terrible things. And I understood what it meant
Walleye
May 16
#3
The party of butt-hurt boys. They know damn well what it means they're just being drama queens
Walleye
May 16
#5
What segment of the population threw baby fits when Amazon sold this merch?
Hassin Bin Sober
May 17
#71
There was an 8646 bumper sticker in my neighborhood. I was tempted, but I never keyed the car.
Scrivener7
May 16
#9
Everyone who ever went into a music club or bar knows it means to get tossed out or banned
blm
May 16
#11
Yes, it might also mean that, but it hasn't been a common use in my not so sheltered life
Ilikepurple
May 16
#22
You are "troubled by the coarseness in politics" --yet you pass it along to us & demand we be accountable for it
Hekate
May 20
#114
Comey knew it was wrong. He just wanted attention. This fool is not on our side. He sabotaged Hillary.
Pisces
May 16
#31
How I've always understood the term 86 it is to eject someone or cut off contact
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
May 16
#34
I had never seen the 86 46 stuff... probably because I don't digest RWNJ content...
WarGamer
May 17
#58
I didn't know about it because there were far worse things being said by MAGAts about Biden at the time.
W_HAMILTON
May 17
#72
The rise of political violence in our country has been primarily due to ever-increasing Republican extremism.
W_HAMILTON
May 18
#75
Just because you have a right to say something doesn't mean it's right to say it.
DemocratSinceBirth
May 17
#62
Agree. It was minor drivel until Dotard and his cult got his panties twisted in a wad.
Norrrm
May 18
#84
86-46 would have been one of the least offensive things MAGA said or posted publically.
mackdaddy
May 18
#92
I only knew the term in the speakeasy sense and to generally mean "to get rid of".
lapucelle
May 18
#100
When the kitchen tells a waiter to "86" the roast chicken, it doesn't mean...
LudwigPastorius
May 18
#109