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<verb> to require a customer to leave; to kick someone out.
Popular in the bar and casino business.
Stems from the days when men drank 100 proof whiskey in bars while women were served 86 proof. If a man became too disruptive, the bartender made a big show about pouring the drunk a "women's drink." This usually embarassed the inebriated patron suffiently to send him for the exit -- hence today we "86" unruly customers.
1. The pit boss 86'ed the card counter, banning him from entering the casino.
2. "86 43!" = impeach the 43rd president of the USA (GW Bush)
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To kick some one out.
Back in the old west, most whiskeys were 100 proof. However, there was generally a bottle of 86 proof that was reserved for the ladies. When a cowboy couldn't hold his liquor, or would get to rowdy, the bartender would pour him a shot of the 86 proof whiskey. The cowboy was supposed to be so embarrassed by this that he would leave the bar.
He was really drunk, so the bartender 86ed his ass.
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@ Delmontico Bro"s In NYC(one of the first American Restaurants), # 86 on the menu was the Delmontico Steak. This was their most popular item and was always sold out over the week-ends. Hence the term 86 became the standard in the restaurant industry for being out of an item.
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I think the origin of the term 86ed refers to the Empire State Building in New York. The observation deck (which for a period of time was a popular suicide jump point)is on the 86th floor. In reference to the deaths, the term 86ed came to be used.
A suicide from the observation deck was referred to as having 86ed himself.
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According to "Unwrapped" (Food Network) the term 86ed spawned from the restaurant Delmonico's constantly selling out of the 86th item on the menu, the Delmonico Steak.
Numerous other entries have referenced a speakeasy in NYC, only problem is Delmonico's has been in business since 1837. Far before prohibition.
She ordered the Steak but we're 86'd.
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