[字彙] eighty-six (v) 拒絕服務奧客

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什麼? 數字竟然可以變單字? 下次到餐廳或酒吧裡去，小心服務生 "86" 你哦XD http://sovereignty.pixnet.net/blog/post/26814690 The Word of the Day for August 06, 2010 is: eighty-six \ay-tee-SIKS\ verb, slang : to refuse to serve (a customer); also : to get rid of : throw out Example Sentence: "NBC's Hannah Storm eighty-sixed her real last name, Storen, when her first employer, a heavy-metal-oriented radio station in Corpus Christi, asked her to host a show titled Storm by the Sea." (Sports Illustrated, September 25, 2000) Did you know? If you work in a restaurant or bar, you might eighty-six (or "eliminate") a menu item when you run out of it, or you might eighty-six (or "cut off") a customer who should no longer be served. "Eighty-six" is still used in this specific context, but it has also entered the general language. These days, you don’t have to be a worker in a restaurant or bar to eighty-six something -- you just have to be someone with something to get rid of or discard. There are many popular but unsubstantiated theories about the origin of "eighty-six." The explanation judged most probable by Merriam-Webster etymologists is that the word was created as a rhyming slang word for "nix," which means "to veto" or "to reject." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- unsubstantiated (a) 未經證實的 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 140.112.175.59