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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Black Joke An old tune, now called The Sprig of Shillelagh. Tom Moore has adapted words to the tune, beginning, "Sublime was the warning which Liberty spoke." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | BLACK JOKE. A popular tune to a song, having for the burden, "Her black joke and belly so white:" figuratively the black joke signifies the monosyllable. See MONOSYLLABLE. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
black joke | 1,039 |
black joke people | 166 |
black joke racist | 98 |
racial black joke | 16 |
black joke people racist | 8 |
black joke so | 6 |
black joke white | 6 |
black joke liner one | 5 |
black joke mexican | 5 |
black joke man | 5 |
black joke sex | 4 |
black joke nigger | 3 |
black joke person | 3 |
black joke short | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-j-k-k-l-o" | |
-2 letters: becloak. | |
-3 letters: cajole. | |
-4 letters: black, bleak, block, bloke, cable, cloak, coble. | |
-5 letters: able, alec, aloe, back, bake, bale, balk, beak, beck, blae, bloc, bock, bola, bole, cake, calk, calo, coal, coke, cola, cole, jack, jake, jock, joke, jole, kale, keck, koel, kola, lace, lack, lake, leak, lobe, loca, lock, olea. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4C 41 43 4B 4A 4F 4B 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001100 01000001 01000011 01001011 00100000 01001010 01001111 01001011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B L A C K   J O K E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004C 0041 0043 004B 004A 004F 004B 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3646353745244494539 |
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