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variants:
or 86es
present tense third-person singular of eighty-six
Synonyms & Antonyms of eighty-sixes
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
- decided to eighty-six his birth name the minute he arrived in Hollywood
Synonyms for eighty-sixes
- cashiers,
- casts (off),
- chucks,
- deep-sixes,
- discards,
- ditches,
- dumps,
- exorcises
- (also exorcizes),
- flings (off or away),
- jettisons,
- junks,
- lays by,
- loses,
- pitches,
- rejects,
- scraps,
- sheds,
- shucks (off),
- sloughs (off)
- also sluffs (off),
- throws away,
- throws out,
- tosses,
- unloads
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“Eighty-sixes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eighty-sixes. Accessed 29 Jan. 2022.
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