Beat slang - to be banned, as in told to leave, usually permanently, i.e., "Don't ever come back."

Also, the name of a comic by Ian Boothby dealing with his employment and lifestyle on the site of and at the time of Vancouver's Expo 86.

Term used in the restaurant business. To 86 something means that every last particle of it is gone.

ex."86 the trout!" means we have no more trout left, therefore the trout is all gone.

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