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- verb Present participle of
eighty-six .
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Examples
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Romano was so incensed by the outburst that he came close to eighty-sixing Stuey for good right then and there.
One of a Kind Nolan Dalla 2005
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To save everyone the embarrassment and effort of eighty-sixing him, he made a habit of evicting himself before his welcomes had to be officially withdrawn.
Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005
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Romano was so incensed by the outburst that he came close to eighty-sixing Stuey for good right then and there.
One of a Kind Nolan Dalla 2005
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To save everyone the embarrassment and effort of eighty-sixing him, he made a habit of evicting himself before his welcomes had to be officially withdrawn.
Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005
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Romano was so incensed by the outburst that he came close to eighty-sixing Stuey for good right then and there.
One of a Kind Nolan Dalla 2005
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I quit when I was pregnantfigured I was eighty-sixing one bad habit, why not lose that one too?
Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy Ellen Hopkins 2004
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I quit when I was pregnantfigured I was eighty-sixing one bad habit, why not lose that one too?
Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy Ellen Hopkins 2004
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I quit when I was pregnantfigured I was eighty-sixing one bad habit, why not lose that one too?
Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy Ellen Hopkins 2004
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PC users who want to have an Ubuntu machine without eighty-sixing Windows completely often configure their systems to run both -- though a reboot is sometimes required.
TechNewsWorld 2009
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That questions elicits only shrugs and a rueful joke from one of the waitress about "maybe we'll be just eighty-sixing ourselves."
CounterPunch 2009
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