eighty-six
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cashier, cast (off), chuck, deep-six, discard, ditch, dump, exorcise (also exorcize), fling (off or away), jettison, junk, lay by, lose, pitch, reject, scrap, shed, shuck (off), slough (off) also sluff (off) , throw away, throw out, toss, unload
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