# To "86" something
**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/to-86-something/325386
**Category:** General chatter
**Tags:** phrases, language
**Created:** [August 17, 2017, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/to-86-something/325386 "2017-08-17T12:35:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@jesus2099](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/jesus2099)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/to-86-something/325386/1 "2017-08-17T12:35:32Z")
> [@iTunes track titles](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-track-titles/274548/2):
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> I’d just 86 it.
Sorry for my ignorance but what is 86?
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### Author:  [@Billy\_Yank](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Billy_Yank)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/to-86-something/325386/2 "2017-08-17T16:18:30Z")
> [@iTunes track titles](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-track-titles/274548/12):
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> > [@iTunes track titles](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/itunes-track-titles/274548/2):
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> > I’d just 86 it.
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> Sorry for my ignorance but what is 86?
Remove, delete, destroy.
> **[Urban Dictionary: 86](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=86)**
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> To remove, end usage, or take something out or away. Despite ALL other posts suggestion the origion of this phrase there is only one true answer: Chumley's, a famous and OLD New York speakeasy, is located at 86 Bedford St. During Prohibition, an...
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### Author:  [@jesus2099](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/jesus2099)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/to-86-something/325386/3 "2017-08-17T22:32:19Z")
Wow, what an insider private joke or something.
Ok, **it means delete** , whatever the origins, too many words I don’t get. 🤔
@HibiscusKazeneko, please just say **delete** next time. 😅
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### Author:  [@Wheeljack](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Wheeljack)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2017, 2:43am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/to-86-something/325386/4 "2017-08-18T02:43:01Z")
jesus2099, it is an American expression, not too commonly used but I have heard it before.
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### Author:  [@justcheckingitout](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/justcheckingitout)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2017, 11:51am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/to-86-something/325386/5 "2017-08-18T11:51:16Z")
I just had to explain “I rest my case” to someone from Germany.
I hate speaking to the overseas call centers for that very reason. Some of them speak very good English (better than some Americans I have come across), but they lack the little things.
In fairness, when I get overseas calls -
私の舌が捻れる
Watashi no shita ga nejireru
Meine zunge wird verdreht
מיין צונג ווערט טוויסטיד
meyn tsung vert tvistid
**my tongue gets twisted.**
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### Author:  [@jesus2099](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/jesus2099)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2018, 7:16am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/to-86-something/325386/6 "2018-06-25T07:16:16Z")
But here we are not an oversea call centre aimed at Americans.
MB is international and you are just lucky that English was chosen.
So English natives should just refrain from using too much idiomatic expressions if they want to keep beng understood properly. 😉👍
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### Author:  [@mfmeulenbelt](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/mfmeulenbelt)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2018, 7:24am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/to-86-something/325386/7 "2018-06-25T07:24:36Z")
On the plus side, we all learned something new today. 🙂
But – especially if you want help – it is better to write clearly for as wide an audience as possible.
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### Author:  [@jesus2099](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/jesus2099)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2018, 8:37am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/to-86-something/325386/8 "2018-06-25T08:37:42Z")
> [@mfmeulenbelt](#):
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> we all learned something new today.
Don’t overestimate my memory, it’s all forgotten the day after (no will to remember anyway).
I am back in the topic and discovered again 86→delete.
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### Author:  [@mmirG](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/mmirG)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/to-86-something/325386/9 "2018-06-26T01:48:20Z")
The code recently reached [the headlines](https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrT4pQImjFbASIApYwL5gt.;_ylu=X3oDMTByYnR1Zmd1BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMyBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--/RV=2/RE=1530006153/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.theatlantic.com%2fentertainment%2farchive%2f2018%2f06%2fa-restaurant-eighty-sixed-sarah-huckabee-sanders-what-does-that-mean%2f563588%2f/RK=2/RS=e1_GucGJZWYQ2E8FuOJ_R9_Tflg-) following a US restauranteur’s ejection of a high profile customer and the event, recriminations, justifications and opinions there-on going viral on US social media in a highly charged and highly politicized atmosphere…
An older US phrase describing the ejection of a customer from an establishment would be that the customer had been given “the bum’s rush”. I find this phrase more demeaning of the customer, poetic and graphically descriptive what with “bum” in Australian English referring to the buttocks.
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### Author:  [@psychoadept](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/psychoadept)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 2:50am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/to-86-something/325386/10 "2018-06-26T02:50:05Z")
I’m American, but I’ve always interpreted that phrase that way (probably because it’s often phrased “a bum rush”, which is less clear in intent). It was only as an adult that I realized it probably meant bum-as-in-vagrant not bum-as-in-buttocks. But I still have to consciously correct it in my head.
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### Author:  [@mmirG](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/mmirG)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 3:42am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/to-86-something/325386/11 "2018-06-26T03:42:24Z")
I didn’t realise that US English included bum-as-in-buttocks.
Over here near Antarctica that meaning seems to have been filtered down by distance and then overwhelmed by
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### Author:  [@psychoadept](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/psychoadept)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 4:32am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/to-86-something/325386/12 "2018-06-26T04:32:54Z")
I think they both sound kind of dated, but the “buttocks” usage less so. I’d certainly only use it in that sense, but even then only in a “I’m going to use this word because I’m trying to be super polite” sort of way. I might go for “tush” in those circumstances, too, although that has its own connotations.
Now I’m musing on the “politeness” of different words for buttocks, compared across regions. 😆
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### Author:  [@mfmeulenbelt](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/mfmeulenbelt)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 6:54am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/to-86-something/325386/13 "2018-06-26T06:54:22Z")
Since we’re bumrushing…