[Ads-l] "Eighty-six" (1929)

[Ben Zimmer]

Barry Popik discovered the previous earliest known citation for
"eighty-six" in soda-jerk jargon (Walter Winchell, 1933), and now he has
antedated that with this 1929 find.

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https://www.newspapers.com/article/pittsburgh-post-gazette-eight-six-or/196667688/
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 10, 1929, p. 8, col. 6
"Pittsburghesque" by Charles F. Danver
The Soda Jerker's Code.
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"Eighty-six!" (All out.)
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