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To: tang-soo

Doesn’t 86’d also mean forcibly removed?

“The bouncer 86’d him from the bar.”


485 posted on 03/20/2019 9:42:00 AM PDT by Califreak (If Obama had been treated like Trump the US would have been burnt down before Inauguration Day)
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To: Califreak; tang-soo

I’d always thought that “86” as an elimination signal had a military origin.

Sort of an Army equivalent of Navy’s “Davey Jones Locker”?


490 posted on 03/20/2019 9:49:45 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Califreak

That’s the meaning that I’m most familiar with!


503 posted on 03/20/2019 10:05:11 AM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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