Usually means: Exclude someone or something; reject.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word eighty-six:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. eighty-six: Merriam-Webster
  2. eighty-six: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eighty-six: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. eighty-six, eighty-six: Collins English Dictionary
  5. eighty-six: Vocabulary.com
  6. Eighty-six, eighty-six: Wordnik
  7. eighty-six: Wiktionary
  8. eighty-six: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. eighty-six: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. eighty-six: Dictionary.com
  11. eighty-six: Rhymezone
  12. eighty-six: FreeDictionary.org
  13. eighty-six: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Eighty-Six: The Word Detective
  15. eighty-six: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Eighty-six: World Wide Words

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. eighty-six, eighty-six: A Word A Day
  2. eighty-six: Idioms
  3. eighty-six: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eighty-six, eighty-six: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See eighty-sixing as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Eighty-six)

▸ verb:  Alternative form of 86 [(informal, transitive) To cancel an order for food.]

Similar:
hold, countermand, cashier, counterorder, unorder, deep six, deep-six, denumber, cancel, wait, more...

Opposite:
fourteen, reverse, undo, cancel, retract

Types:
cancel, scrap, nix, ditch, more...



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Similar:
hold, countermand, cashier, counterorder, unorder, deep six, deep-six, denumber, cancel, wait, more...

Opposite:
fourteen, reverse, undo, cancel, retract

Types:
cancel, scrap, nix, ditch, more...



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