eighty-six

English

**English numbers ^(edit)**
← 85	86	87 →
Cardinal: eighty-six Ordinal: eighty-sixth Abbreviated ordinal: 86th Adverbial: eighty-six times

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From eighty +‎ six.

Numeral

eighty-six

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

Synonyms

Translations

cardinal number 86

Arabic: سِتَّة وَثَمَانُون (sitta wa-ṯamānūn)
Armenian: ութսունվեց (utʻsunvecʻ)
Azerbaijani: səksən altı (az)
Basque: laurogeita sei (eu)
Belarusian: во́семдзесят шэсць (vósjemdzjesjat šescʹ)
Bengali: ছিয়াশি (bn) (chiẏaśi)
Catalan: vuitanta-sis (ca)
Valencian: huitanta-sis (ca)
Cherokee: ᏧᏁᎳᏍᎪ ᏑᏓᎵ (tsunelasgo sudali)
Dutch: zesentachtig (nl)
Esperanto: okdek ses
Finnish: kahdeksankymmentäkuusi
French: quatre-vingt-six (fr)
Galician: oitenta e seis (gl)
Georgian: ოთხმოცდაექვსი (otxmocdaekvsi)
German: sechsundachtzig (de)
Greek: ογδόντα έξ (ogdónta éx)
Hebrew: שמנים־וששה (šmoním və-šišá)
Hindi: छियासी (hi) (chiyāsī)
Hungarian: nyolcvanhat (hu)
Italian: ottantasei (it)
Japanese: 八十六 (hachijūroku)
Korean: 여든여섯 (yeodeunyeoseot), 팔십육 (palsibyuk)
Lao: ແປດສິບຫົກ (pǣt sip hok)
Latin: octoginta sex
Malay: lapan puluh enam
Malayalam: എൺപത്താറ് (eṇpattāṟŭ), എൺപത്തിയാറ് (eṇpattiyāṟŭ)
Manchu: ᠵᠠᡴᡡᠨᠵᡠ
ᠨᡳᠩᡤᡠᠨ (jakūnju ninggun)
Navajo: tseebídiin dóó baʼąą hastą́ą́
Polish: osiemdziesiąt sześć (pl)
Portuguese: oitenta e seis (pt)
Romanian: optzeci și șase
Russian: во́семьдесят шесть (ru) (vósemʹdesjat šestʹ)
Sanskrit: षडशीति (sa) (ṣaḍaśīti)
Serbo-Croatian: osamdeset i šest, osamdeset šest
Spanish: ochenta y seis
Swahili: themanini na sita
Tagalog: walumpu't anim
Tok Pisin: etpela ten sikis
Turkish: seksen altı
Ukrainian: вісімдеся́т ші́сть (visimdesját šístʹ)
Urdu: چھیاسی (chiyāsī)
Yup'ik: yuinaat cetaman arvinglegen

Etymology 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. See also: Wikipedia:86 (term) and 86.

Verb

eighty-six (third-person singular simple present eighty-sixes, present participle eighty-sixing, simple past and past participle eighty-sixed)

Alternative form of 86.
- 2025 May 16, Edward Helmore, “What does ‘8647’ really mean? Not what Trump’s supporters are saying”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:
  Equipment on a warship set to be upgraded or disposed of was given the code AT-6, or phonetically “eighty-six”.

Synonyms

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to cancel an order for food

Finnish: peruuttaa (fi)
German: abbestellen (de)
Icelandic: afpanta
Swedish: avbryta (sv)

to remove an item from menu

colloquial: to remove or eject

German: herunterreißen (de)
Icelandic: fjarlægja

colloquial: to throw out

Finnish: heittää roskikseen
German: hinauswerfen (de)
Icelandic: henda (is)
Swedish: slänga (sv)

References

Michael Quinion (2004), “Eighty-six”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.