The meaning of EIGHTY-SIX is to refuse to serve (a customer). How to use eighty-six in a sentence. Did you know?
"I hate to see the guys always getting eighty-sixed," she said, using military jargon for killed in action. "Not fair.” — John Kifner,The New York Times, 3 Feb. 1991 The most common meaning ofeighty-sixencountered today is the one that is closer to its service industry roots (“t...