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The deck was on the 86th floor.Īpparently, there was a local code in New York, Code 86, that made it a crime for bartenders to serve drunken patrons. In the days before a safety fence was installed on the observation deck of the Empire State Building, people would commit suicide by jumping from it. When the heat showed up, guests were known to 86 it, or remove themselves from the premises immediately. There was a speakeasy bar at 86 Bedford Street in Greenwich Village called Chumley's, with no address on the door and several hidden exits. A pinch of that in a rowdy cowboy’s drink apparently would have him heading for the door.
The term may have come from Old Eighty-Six, a popular shaving powder in the old days. When a patron would get too drunk, the barkeep would serve him a less potent, 86 proof liquor, thereby 86’ing him. Or it may have originally been a bartender’s term. Rotary phones had T on the 8 key and O on the 6 key, so to throw out (TO) something was to 86 it.
The term was derived from military shorthand. The United States also has a Uniform Code of Military Justice that has an Article 86: Absence Without Leave, a.k.a AWOL. The term originated during the Korean war, a reference to the F-86 fighter jet when an F-86 shot down an enemy plane, it was 86’d. The term originated in the soup kitchens of the Great Depression, where the standard pot held 85 cups of soup, so the 86th person was out of luck. Then I did some research and realized the genesis of the term isn’t clear at all.įirst, another soup pot reference. After that number of ladles, the soup was 86’d. When I first asked that same question, I was told this: that the standard height of a door frame was 8 feet 6 inches, and when an obnoxious guest was shown the door, he was “86’d.” That pacified me until I later heard that it took 86 ladles to empty a pot of soup on an Army mess line. LouisĮditor's Note: This article was updated from an earlier version. Where did that term originate?-Jason R., St. We’ve all heard the term “86,” indicating that a restaurant is out of something.
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