Cat Burglar

  

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Cat Burglar

Definition: Cat Burglar

Cat Burglar

Noun

1. A burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Cat Burglar

Synonym: housebreaker (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Cat Burglar

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Cat Burglar (1961)

Cat Burglar (1990)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Cat Burglar

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cat Burglar on the Prowl (Frightmares) (reference)

  • Kristy and the Cat Burglar (Baby-Sitters Club Mystery, 36) (reference)

  • Memoir of a Retired Cat Burglar (reference)

  • The Cat Burglar (Petsitter's Club, 2) (reference)

  • The Home Invaders: Confessions of a Cat Burglar (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cat Burglar

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  cat burglar

25
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Cat Burglar

Language Translations for "cat burglar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vjedhës (burglar, cracksman, hooker, larcenous, lurcher, peculator, pickpocket, pilferer, prig, robber, sneak, thief). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏لص التسلق. (various references)

   

French

  

monte-en-l'air, monte-en l'air. (various references)

   

German

  

Fassadenkletterer. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

' ב מטפס. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

falmászó betörõ. (various references)

   

Italian

  

ladro che si arrampica sulle case. (various references)

   

Manx

  

maarliagh drappal, gaddee drappal. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atcay urglarbay

   

Russian 

  

вор-домушник. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ladrón trepador, hombre mosca/escalador/escalatorres. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fasadklättrare (catburgler). (various references)

   

Thai

  

นักย่องเบา. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

pencereden giren soyguncu, duvara tırmanıp giren hırsız. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Cat Burglar

Misspellings

"Cat Burglar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: catburglar. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Cat Burglar

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-g-l-r-r-t-u"

-3 letters: burglar, tabular.

-4 letters: ablaut, actual, bacula, brutal, crural, curara, curtal, ratbag.

-5 letters: altar, argal, artal, aural, aurar, blurt, bract, cabal, carat, craal, crura, gault, graal, gular, labra, laura, rabat, ratal, rugal, rural, tabla, talar, tubal, ultra.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Cat Burglar


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 74      42 75 72 67 6C 61 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110100 00100000 01000010 01110101 01110010 01100111 01101100 01100001 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#116 &#32 &#66 &#117 &#114 &#103 &#108 &#97 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0074      0042 0075 0072 0067 006C 0061 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

376786236878473786784

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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