Monday, March 16, 2020

Term of the Night: to 86 someone

 to 86 someone--to throw someone out of a bar or from backstage. "Security 86-ed the drunk guest who was harassing the ingenue backstage." Excellent etymology on this term. Chumley's was an old speakeasy in Greenwich Village. When the cops would raid the place, the patrons would be hustled out the 86 Bedford Street entrance.

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