Definitions for eighty-six

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eighty-six eight·y-six

Spelling: [ey-tee-siks]

IPA: /ˈeɪ tiˈsɪks/

Eighty-Six is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in eighty-six (-eghiistxy).

Definitions for eighty-six

noun

1. a cardinal number, 80 plus 6.
2. a symbol for this number, as 86 or LXXXVI.
3. a set of this many persons or things.
4. Slang. a customer considered undesirable or unwelcome and refused service at a bar or restaurant.

adjective

1. amounting to 86 in number.
2. Slang. sold out; out of stock.

verb (used with object)

1. to refuse to serve (an undesirable or unwelcome customer) at a bar or restaurant.
2. to reject; discard.

Origin of eighty-six

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

Examples for eighty-six

One hundred and eighty-six men, mounted, from the Monongahela settlements.

eighty-six people are dying each day from gun violence including eight children; and 3,000 people since Newtown.

eighty-six percent of stocks in the "Sold in the USA" portfolio offer juicy dividends, yielding on average 2.7 percent.

The number is five hundred and eighty-six and I think we shall do better than that.

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

Their length was one hundred and eighty-six and their breadth twenty-four feet.

eighty-six percent of them had been catcalled on the street, and 36 percent said it happened daily.

Those present numbered eighty-six, Stephen learned from the count.

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

There was an uncle of my own was in a passion for forty years, and he died at eighty-six.'