# The term "86'd it"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-term-86d-it/170432>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 22, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-term-86d-it/170432 "2003-04-22T21:18:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![empfsu1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/db5fbb/32.png) [@empfsu1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/empfsu1)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-term-86d-it/170432/1 "2003-04-22T21:18:57Z")

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I did a search for this, but it said there were too few words:

Where does the term “86’d” come from? Like, “Yeah, I 86’d my cell phone because it cost too much money”

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**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-term-86d-it/170432/2 "2003-04-22T21:32:50Z")

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This was answered by **Cecil** himself some time ago.

It was also discussed in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=178567) thread from yesterday.

The trouble with searching may have been that the board search tool requires you to enter words longer than three letters, so ‘86’ doesn’t cut it.

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-term-86d-it/170432/3 "2003-04-22T23:19:20Z")

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Since this was so recently addressed, I’ll 86 this thread and direct folks to the other one.