The Merriam-Webster dictionary traces “86” to “1930s soda-counter slang meaning that an item was sold out. There is varying anecdotal evidence about why the term eighty-six was used, but the most common theory is that it is rhyming slang for nix.”

One of two brothers who became social media sensations thanks to their online baiting of President Donald Trump found out it went too far yesterday after echoing a veiled threat against the president.

President Donald Trump stoked MAGA’s calls for former FBI Chief James Comey‘s arrest over a social post Trump has called an “assassination message.” Trump told Fox News’ Bret Baier that he would defer to Attorney General Pam Bondi on whether Comey should be investigated after posting seashells arranged with the message “8647.

The slang term at the center of a political firestorm around former FBI Director James Comey likely originated as food-service-industry jargon before extending to other uses.

Trump administration officials say that the term refers to assassination, but lexicologists say it emerged from diner slang.