Timeline for What is a person who never leaves a tip called?
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
5 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2013 at 13:52 | comment | added | MetaEd | Your comment would make a good addition to your answer. | |
| Sep 17, 2013 at 23:19 | comment | added | rhetorician | @MετάEd: You are correct; the quoted part does not. My reason for including the definition was to show that the expression "eighty-six," as wait staff in NYC used it, was at least tangentially related to a restaurant patron's "nixing" someone, in this case a waiter or waitress. Yeah, it was used as a noun, as in "The guy in the plaid shirt is an eighty-six." As for documentation, I got the expression firsthand from a waiter in New York City who worked for years at the once famous Stauffer's (sp.?) Restaurant. | |
| Sep 17, 2013 at 0:40 | comment | added | MetaEd | Two questions: Is that sense of "eighty-six" documented anywhere? The one quoted says nothing about a bad tipper. And was it used as a noun? Would you refer to someone as an "eighty-six"? | |
| Sep 16, 2013 at 19:51 | comment | added | user51029 | Nice contribution, +1! | |
| Sep 16, 2013 at 19:23 | history | answered | rhetorician | CC BY-SA 3.0 |