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The address of Chumley's—86 Bedford Street, West Village—is one of several origin stories of the term. There are many theories about the origin of the term but none is certain. It seems to have originated in the 1920s or 1930s. [citation needed] Possible origins include: Rhyming slang for nix. [4] Part of the jargon used by soda jerks.
with an aliquot sum of 46; itself a semiprime, within an aliquot sequence of seven members (86,46,26,16,15,9,4,3,1,0) in the Prime 3-aliquot tree. It appears in the Padovan sequence, preceded by the terms 37, 49, 65 (it is the sum of the first two of these). [8] It is conjectured that 86 is the largest n for which the decimal expansion of 2 n ...
The pun is military slang; [4] possibly a reference to Ned Kelly, from Ned Kelly's helmet, the eye slot resembling the number 1. 2 One little duck From the resemblance of the number 2 to a duck; see also "22". Response is a single "quack." 3 Cup of tea Rhymes with "three". 4 Knock at the door
The second more direct origin of the current usage comes from 1914 when James Joyce used the Irish slang gas to describe joking or frivolity. During the "Jazz Age," the expression was picked up by ...
Brooks decided on Smart's code number, 86, as a reference to the slang term, meaning to forcibly eject someone, such as a patron from a bar or casino. In 1999, TV Guide ranked Maxwell Smart number 19 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list. [ 14 ]
86 – a term used when the restaurant has run out of, or is unable to prepare a particular menu item. The term is also generally used to mean getting rid of someone or something, including the situation where a bar patron is ejected from the premises and refused readmittance. [1] À la carte; All you can eat; Bartender; Blue-plate special ...
The term has been around in Black American communities since the 1990s, appearing as early as 1992 on "It Was a Good Day" by Ice Cube, who raps: "No flexin', didn't even look in a n----'s direction."
While slang is usually inappropriate for formal settings, this assortment includes well-known expressions from that time, with some still in use today, e.g., blind date, cutie-pie, freebie, and take the ball and run. [2] These items were gathered from published sources documenting 1920s slang, including books, PDFs, and websites.