Long before it hit the restaurant floor, "nix" was the word for shutting something down—refusing it, canceling it, killing it on the spot. Somewhere along the way, "eighty-six" latched on as rhyming slang, and the number stuck. Nix became 86, and 86 became the way you made something disappear.
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