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eighty-six
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eight·y-six or 86 (t-sks)
tr.v. eight·y-sixed or 86·ed, eight·y-six·ing or 86·ing, eight·y-six·es or 86·es Slang
1. To refuse to serve (an unwelcome customer) at a bar or restaurant.
2.
a. To throw out; eject.
b. To throw away; discard.

[Perhaps after Chumley's bar and restaurant at 86 Bedford Street in Greenwich Village, New York City.]
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Adj.1.eighty-sixeighty-six - being six more than eighty
cardinal - being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers"


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Feinberg's Eighty-Sixed, John Weir's The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket (both 1989), Monette's Afterlife, and Michael Cunningham's A Home at the End of the World (both 1990).
Armstrong has a sense of humor, at times quiet, as in Moon Under Morning Glory and Amaryllis Over Moonrise, in which mutant and "natural" flowers coexist, and at times goofy, as in the Masaccio Adam and Eve being expelled from a Ruscha-like bar in Eighty-Sixed.
 
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