Eighty-six has also been used in popular culture to mean dismiss or even kill.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

Instead,doctors use a patient's medical history and testing to dismiss other treatable conditions.

VOA: special.2011.01.18

Chrysler wants to quickly dismiss almost eight hundred dealers across the country.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

His job is to dismiss people from their jobs.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

They demanded that President Pierce dismiss him.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

Many scientists dismiss the comet theory.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

Mister Yamasaki's employer did not dismiss him.

VOA: special.2011.04.01

They demanded that President Lincoln dismiss him.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

"Trafficking thrives in the shadows. And it can be easy to dismiss it as something that happens to someone else, somewhere else.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

So I don't think that we should dismiss those threats. Brian Fishman says it is unlikely that Shahzad was a well-trained TTP operative.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

"You know people just dismiss it all the time when in fact it's a clear biological disorder that has very big influences on affected individuals."

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

International investors and analysts have expressed concerns however about the independence of Hungary's central bank in this process, after Mr.Orban suggested he may dismiss the bank's governor for alleged mismanagement.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

But many workers dismiss the federation as useless.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24