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基数

eighty-six

1. The cardinal number immediately following eighty-five and preceding eighty-seven.

• Hindu-Arabic numerals: 86
• Roman numerals: LXXXVI
• Chinese numerals: 捌拾陸, 八十六
• Eastern Arabic numerals: ٨٦
• Persian numerals: ۸۶
• Tibetan numerals: ༨༦
• Modern Devanagari numerals: ८६
• Gujarati numerals: ૮૬
• Gurmukhi numerals: ੮੬
• Bengali numerals: ৮৬
• Oriya numerals: ୮୬
• Telugu numerals: ౮౬
• Kannada numerals: ೮೬
• Malayalam numerals: ൮൬
• Tamil numerals: ௮௰௬
• Khmer numerals: ៨៦
• Thai numerals: ๘๖
• Lao numerals: ໘໖
• Myanmar numerals: ၈၆
• Amharic numerals: ፰፲፮
• Mongolian numerals: ᠘᠖
• Limbu numerals: ᥎᥌

語源 2

Unknown for certain. Possibly rhyming slang for nix (“cancel, say no to”) (given by the OED), or possibly part of a code of such numbers, created in the 1920s.

動詞

to eighty-six (三人称単数 現在形 eighty-sixes, 現在分詞 eighty-sixing, 過去形および過去分詞形 eighty-sixed)

1. (colloquial) To cancel an order for food.

   "eighty-six the ham and eggs for table two!"

2. (colloquial) To remove an item from the menu.

   eighty-six the lobster bisque - we won't have the lobster delivery until tomorrow.

   "Yes, I'd like the tomato soup." / "I'm sorry sir, that's been eighty-sixed - would you like a salad instead?"

3. (colloquial) To remove or eject, as a disruptive customer

   Ryan and his friends got too rowdy at the bar, so they were eighty-sixed.

4. (colloquial) To throw out; discard.

   "We finally had to eighty-six that old printer after it jammed one too many times."

同意語

• nix
• ixnay

参照

• "Eighty-six" in Michael Quinion, Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds, 2004.