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eighty-six

Polish translation: dostawać osiemdziesiątkę szóstkę

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English term or phrase:	eighty-six
Polish translation:	dostawać osiemdziesiątkę szóstkę
Entered by:	Teresa Pełka

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08:20 Aug 9, 2010

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English term or phrase: eighty-six

Origins:

"Restaurant lingo meaning "take an item off the menu." By extension it can also mean to get rid of almost anything (including doing away with somebody). The Urbandictionary entry attributing the term to the 1980s is erroneous. I worked as a short order cook in the late 1960s and it was in use in a half dozen NewYork city joints where I worked. Oldtimers say the term was around in the 1940s and that the derivation is Article 86 of the New York Liquor Code which describes the circumstances under which liquor should be withheld from a customer."

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=eighty-six

Or:

"86 Bedford Street was the street address for Chumley's, a rowdy New York speakeasy that often forcibly ejected, or "eighty-sixed," drunk and disorderly patrons."

http://ask.yahoo.com/20030822.html

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dostawać osiemdziesiątkę szóstkę

Explanation:
ew. ...paragraf/artykuł osiemdziesiąt sześć/osiemdziesiąty szósty
ew. dostawać z osiemdziesiątki szóstki

W drugą stronę: dać komuś osiemdziesiątkę szóstkę ew. dać komuś z paragrafu/artykułu osiemdziesiąt sześć

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